

A bit more of him also would have have given us a better sense of the man. We get very scenes of his equation with team members. However, it is a bit on the stodgier side and lacks the deftness that Azhar shows in his strokes (I came back and saw a few videos!). Since the story is about a real person who is still very much in the news, the movie keeps you interested. The movie traces his rise in the sport and his winning streak as a captain before taking on the meeting with the bookies and his love story.

The story follows a flashback- forward format which works quite well most times, apart from when we have to suffer a flashback of a flashback. You have to reset Azhar's image in your mind if you have to see it as his life story. Nargis Fakhri on the other hand has Sangeeta Bijlani's height and build. He looks more like maybe his tubby older brother. Armed with this lack of knowledge of his cricketing prowess and a great interest in what made him so attractive to her (and now to Jwala Gutta) I went to see the movie.įirst off, Emran doesn't have Azhar's lean athletic build. His affair with Sangeeta Bijlani however, I had followed with great interest.

I am not a big cricket fan and have only a sketchy idea about Azhar's success as the Indian Captain and the match fixing controversy.
