1/19/2024 0 Comments Deja vu movie parents guide![]() ![]() Her cricketing stance, her poise, and her shot selection look natural. The film rests on Taapsee’s able shoulders, and she has given her all to the cause. The one I enjoyed the most-through a song playing in the background, we are told to change our point of view, to observe women rather than stare at them. But it does some things differently, and they work. Sure, it is not the best sports film around. When it is time to deliver the big speech, it gives Mithali Raj a crisp monologue that seems like something that happens in real life. This one could have gone ballistic with jingoism, but it picks its own song instead of the usual heart-thumping national anthem. It also chooses subtlety over the other tropes. That it is a sports film without a training montage is a win. This is why it seems okay to ignore Taapsee Pannu as a 15-year-old (No, two plaits do not do the job!).Įspecially the second half suffers from a jerky screenplay.Īlong with the big-picture focus, little things make the film a pleasure to watch. Shabhaash Mithu does a decent job of inspiring women to keep at it against all odds. It won’t be surprising if it is even worse for women in a “gentlemen’s game”. Women in a job that is typically treated as a man’s job have it bad. Of course, the field is set against women in society. ![]() Fortunately, the rest of the supporting cast does a decent enough job of making us believe in the cricketers’ life stories. The writing allows the other characters to shine, whether it is Raj’s friend Noorie in the first half or her teammates in the second half. It could also be because Mithali Raj’s character doesn’t overshadow others, especially considering this is a biopic. Pannu seems unusually out of sorts, though she is one of the best women actors to play a sports person. Disappointingly, though so much has happened in Raj’s life after she made it to the Indian team, the second half feels slow and under-written.Īlong similar lines, the child artist playing Mithali Raj has much more spunk than Taapsee Pannu. In fact, for a person who eye-rolled at the film’s 2.5+-hour length and who had to watch the first 40 minutes of the movie in a really weird aspect ratio because of a technical glitch, I was surprised I hadn’t even realised that it was interval o’clock. While I quite liked the first half, it could also be this disproportionate focus on her childhood that makes the film seem unevenly paced. This is in complete contrast with a smooth and thoroughly enjoyable first half which covers Mithali Raj’s childhood in much detail. Especially the second half suffers from a jerky screenplay. Sure, some of this frustration seems sugar-coated because of the episodic manner in which events are placed one after the other, lacking any flow. Indeed, the lady cricketers must have gone through much more than that shown to us. ![]() The players’ frustration seems to have been presented in a measured fashion. The Indian cricketing board’s name has been altered in the film, but it has been thanked in the credits. Thankfully, the makers picked the pivotal role she played in bringing the plight of women’s sports under the spotlight.Īnd politically, you can tell that the film is walking on a tightrope. Would the story have made it to screen if it were marketed as the life of Indian women’s cricket and titled so? Only because it is about a player we know now, would there have been takers and now viewers. It is only apt that the film about her life is more about the episodes in Indian women’s cricket rather than her life story.įor a person who eye-rolled at the film’s 2.5+-hour length and who had to watch the first 40 minutes of the movie in a weird aspect ratio, I was surprised I hadn’t even realised that it was interval o’clock.Īnd you hit the irony right there. She repeats through the film that she’d rather her team win than be happy that she scored. When I first heard of the film, I wondered if Mithali Raj’s life had enough ‘struggle’ to make for a good sports film? I was pleasantly surprised to see the film point out the lack of struggle straight-up and make the movie larger than Raj’s career as a cricketer. ![]()
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