Friday Aug 28 3:21 PM
Cricket and Bolly
wood have always made for a delicious combination, but unfortunately this combo has never worked in movies. There have been movies like 'Awwal Number', 'All Rounder', 'Victory' etc, but somehow films on the game have just never seemed to do well, until one came to the likes of a 'Lagaan' or 'Iqbal'.
Even though 'Lagaan' or 'Iqbal' are not exactly about cricket, the game forms a major backdrop for the protagonists of both these movies. There is yet another cricket film coming up on the horizon, Yash Raj's 'Dil Bole Hadippa', starring Rani Mukherjee and Shahid Kapur. From the looks of it, cricket is not just a backdrop for the action, but plays a more major role this film. Everybody knows that Rani plays a cute little sardar in the movie, but not everyone knows that Indian cricket team's ace spinner, Harbhajan Singh, also knows as Bhajji, has been the inspiration behind her look in the movie. It seems that the film's makers and the actress actually went through enough match footage of the ace spinner so that they could get the look and the nuances right. The result is there for all to see. One has Rani sporting a very authentic look as a sardar. It seems that the actress is quite keen to hold a special screening of her film for the Indian cricket team. The stakes seem to be loaded in favour of this movie, even though it is early days yet. The presence of Shahid Kapur and his 'sudden discovery' as this phenomenal actor following the release of 'Kaminey' is another factor which should go in the film's favour. Besides, the cricket, of course!
