Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Football dreams and family loss collide in this Indian crime drama, where a teenage boy's talent on the pitch becomes tangled up with a decade-old act of violence he is only beginning to understand.
What is Sikandar about?
Fourteen-year-old Sikandar Raza has grown up in Kashmir under the care of his uncle and aunt since militants killed his parents ten years earlier. Football is the one place where the weight of that history lifts, and Sikandar's growing skill on the field starts to look like a real way out for himself and the family that raised him. But the further he pushes toward that future, the more the past resurfaces, pulling him and the people around him back into a world of threats, old grudges, and unresolved mystery tied to what happened to his parents. The film follows Sikandar as he tries to hold onto an ordinary boy's ambition while forces from his family's history close in around him.
Cast & crew
Salman Khan and Rashmika Mandanna lead the cast, with Sathyaraj, Sharman Joshi, Prateik Babbar, and Kajal Agarwal rounding out an ensemble that spans several generations of Indian cinema. Director A.R. Murugadoss, known for blending mainstream drama with sharper thriller mechanics, keeps the film's emotional core — a boy caught between grief and ambition — front and center even as the plot widens into crime and mystery territory.
Context & significance
"Sikandar" is a 2025 Indian production spanning crime, drama, mystery, and thriller elements, set against the specific backdrop of Kashmir and the long shadow militant violence casts over ordinary families there. Murugadoss has built a career on this kind of hybrid storytelling, using a personal, small-scale hook — one boy, one sport, one loss — to carry a larger thriller plot, and the film's Kashmir setting gives it a regional specificity that distinguishes it from more generic sports-drama templates.
Where & how to watch
"Sikandar" is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, and this page can be read in full without logging in. Streaming the film itself requires a K-Time account, part of a Farsi-first experience built for Persian-speaking viewers who want the option of watching in their own language or reading along with accurate subtitles.