Release date: 22nd Feb 2013
Director: Abhishek Kapoor
Rating: 3.5/5
Passion, chasing one's dreams, undying friendship in the toughest of times, all peppered with young, innocent love blossoming secretly. I am so sure Mr. Bhagat knew he would see his story take the shape of a Bolly flick the day he penned it.
The story, and especially how it pans out in sync with the tribulations of the incidents that occurred in Gujarat in the early 2000s, is appreciable. The young, and hitherto little known cast has also delivered commendably. Yet, just after the characters take shape in your head, and you start getting interested in the juggernaut of events that are panning out in their lives, the movie comes to an end. You are hastily fed a heavily awkward, partly happy conclusion to the tumultuous chain of events that had transpired ten years earlier.
Still, this is worth a trip to the theater- for the freshness of its cast, for the joyous sequences which remind us how the religion of cricket binds this nation, for the touching back-slapping camaraderie, and not to forget, for the demure Amrita Puri. One also has to commend the team for boldly depicting an issue as sensitive as the Gujarat riots.
But for the lackadaisical and abrupt ending, the movie lives up to the substantial media hype it had garnered. A good background score definitely helps (Music review here).
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