In ‘Ghoomer’ (Saiyami Kher, Abhishek Bachchan), R Balki spruces up a predictable underdog sports drama with trademark Balki-isms and a genuine sense of darkness
- Trinity Auditorium
- Aug 19, 2023
- 1 min read
Spoilers ahead…
Every underdog sports drama is something you’ve seen before, so how do you make things different? For one, you give the audience two underdogs: the first is Anina (Saiyami Kher), a promising cricketer who loses her right hand in an accident, and the second is Paddy (Abhishek Bachchan), a once-promising player who is now a drunk and who now reshapes Anina from batter to spin bowler. But even this has been seen before: the stern, down-on-his-luck coach and his determined ward. So how do you still push the narrative into a different zone? By adding an angle we saw in , that film in which Rajesh Khanna played a sinner who was asked to do something to repent for his sins as his punishment. Is it better to throw a man into jail for what he has done, or give him a chance to correct his mistakes (and , maybe, throw him into jail)? This isn’t something that comes up in your usual underdog sports drama.
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