Shabaash mithu

A biopic based on the life and struggles of Mithali Raj, Indian Cricketer, and captain of the Indian National Cricket team. A biopic based on the life and struggles of Mithali Raj, Indian Cricketer, and captain of the Indian National Cricket team. A biopic based on the life and struggles of Mithali Raj, Indian Cricketer, and captain of the Indian National Cricket team.

Express News Service You’d be forgiven for scrolling Wikipedia before entering a show of Shabaash Mithu. Mithali Raj—one of India’s fiercest, most accomplished batters—is a name everyone is familiar with, yet not the specifics of her story. A biopic on her life, thus, has the ripe opportunity to fill us in on the details, joining the necessary dots that took a young girl from Secunderabad to 232 ODIs, 89 T20I matches, and six World Cups. It’s the stuff, as they say, of legends. Unfortunately, Shabaash Mithu is not the film for it. If anything, Srijit Mukherji’s film takes the stuff out of the legend, leaving us with a vague, one-dimensional hero. It treats Mithali as the standalone messiah of women’s cricket in India. What she signifies ultimately supersedes who or what she really is. Her biggest glories—youngest ODI centurion (recently beaten by Ireland’s Amy Hunter), highest run-scorer in women’s cricket, its longest captain—are bundled into montages that whizz on by, with minimal impact. Not a line or anecdote or fascinating trivia sticks. Her conflicts and failures exert no force. As evinced by its title, with its emphatic ‘shabaash (well done)’, this is a film all too eager to praise. The childhood portions are promising. Mithali, just eight, subdues a group of boys with her equally pint-sized best friend Noorie. The girls—prodigiously dubbed the ‘Sachin and Kambli’ of this story—get spotted by local trainer Sampath (Vijay Raaz), who enrolls them in his academy. When ...

• • Inayat Verma as Young Mithali Raj • • • • • Swayam Joshi as an unnamed young boy • • Aditi Aryan as Sresha Badyal • Nirali Oza as Preeti Valhar • Priya Kumari as Roma Kwatra • Ramya Suresh as Himakshi Ganeshan • Titeeksha Tawde as Khushi Anvekar • Kajal Shishodia as Kajal Sutar • Manashree Gavande as Manashree Gavande • Vaishnavi Desai as Vaishnavi Madiga • Ramsingh Falkoti as Peon Bala • • Anushree Kushwaha as Noorie • Kasturi Jagnam as Young Noorie • Nishant Pradhan as Mithun Raj, Mithali's brother • Kalyani Jha as Perizad • Sampa Mandal as Nilu Paswan • Production Development After the The biopic was planned to shoot in 2019. Raj said, "I think Priyanka Chopra will be a great choice (to play me in the biopic). Our personalities match a lot. I am not a movie buff, so I'd love the experts to do their job." Shabaash Mithu, to be directed by Rahul Dholakia in 2020. Preparation and training On 3 December 2019, coinciding with the birthday of Mithali Raj, the film was finalized with Taapsee Pannu in the titular role and Rahul Dholakia as director. In January 2021 Pannu posted her training photos from 3 December 2019, 29 January 2020 and 27 January 2021. In June Filming Principal photography began on 5 April 2021 Tracklist No. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length 1. "Fateh" (Music by Salvage Audio Collective, Charan) Charan Romy, Charan 2:28 2. "Hindustan Meri Jaan" 4:02 3. "Agaaz Hai Tu" Swanand Kirkire Neha Kakkar 4:12 4. "Udd Gayi Re Muniya" Swanand Kirkire Neeraj Arya 3:57 5....

Shabaash Mithu Story: Mithali Dorai Raj, born to a Tamil family in Hyderabad, accidentally finds her way into cricket at a young age, thanks to a friend, Noorie. Gradually, even as she steps in to captain Team India at an early stage of her career, she faces numerous hurdles before putting women-in-blue into the spotlight. Shabaash Mithu Review: Srijit Mukherji’s Shabaash Mithu, within the first few minutes of its runtime, tries to hold your hand and pull you deep inside the life that Mithali Raj has led. The story goes from little Mithali being a Bharatnatyam dancer to a cricketer, and eventually emerging as one of our country’s youngest players to represent India internationally in a sport, dominated by the male counterparts. At every stage throughout its runtime, the movie proactively tries to highlight the underlying sentiment that the team must have felt - from being belittled to being denied equal opportunities, and the fight that Mithali put up for various such issues. The film gradually blends Mithali’s own journey in cricket with that of the women’s national team fighting for its spot under the sun. It’s an emotional underdog story, minus the jingoistic tropes and chest-thumping moments. Taapsee Pannu makes a great effort to internalise Mithali Raj as a person. The highlight of her performance is that she doesn’t mimic the cricketer, but she sets her foot into her shoes, absorbs and displays the sentiments that Mithali has possibly felt at every juncture in her li...

In the first half of Shabaash Mithu, the low-profile coach Sampath Kumar tells a young Mithali Raj, after an indifferent performance in a practice session, that she should be grateful that there are no big social hurdles in her path and compares her background with that of her bosom friend Noorie who played for seven years without telling her parents. Later in the film, during a camp, off-spinner Neelu (inspired by Neetu David) almost graphically tells us how she skinned cattle with her father in a tannery in Kanpur. Storyline: A biopic that chronicles the life of the former captain of the women’s national cricket team., Mithali Raj No offence to the staggering records and stature of Mithali Raj in international cricket, but in a cinema hall, one would like to know more about the lives of Noorie and Neelu. After showing glimpses of a detour, director Srijit Mukherji sticks to doing a heavy-handed, formulaic sports biopic where the makers see the subject with a halo and paint others in muted shades. The film could have been a celebration of women’s cricket but as one of the songs in the film suggests, it focuses mostly on one butterfly. The rest have to wait for another producer to invest in their stories. For a film that talks of giving women cricketers their pehchan (identity) and talks of parity with the Men in Blue, the names of most players around Mithali have been changed. Could any filmmaker take such creative liberty with the prominent members of the men’s team? Lik...

Mumbai, Jul 9 (PTI) Director Srijit Mukerji says his upcoming feature “Shabaash Mithu”, a biographical drama on cricketer Mithali Raj, celebrates the former Indian skipper’s achievements while addressing pertinent issues faced by sportswomen. Starring Taapsee Pannu as Raj, the film chronicles the life of one of the most celebrated female cricketers, her milestone moments, and the ups and downs of her sports journey. While most Bollywood biopics often face criticism for glorifying their subjects, Mukerji said with a glorious career like Raj’s at the centre of the story, there was no need to exaggerate. “You can’t overlook ‘centuries’ of cricketing achievements. They are there in black-and-white in scorecard. We have highlighted that as at the end of the day, she is a cricketer. “When you have such achievements, you can’t glorify or not glorify them. You show them the way they happened. In case of Mithali, these achievements are monuments and they deserve to be celebrated in the highest possible turn,” Mukerji told PTI in an interview. In a career spanning over two decades, Raj smashed seven consecutive 50s in one-day international matches and led India in four World Cups. She retired from all forms of international cricket last month. With an overall tally of 10868 runs, she is also the leading-run getter in women’s cricket across formats. Written by Priya Aven, “Shabaash Mithu” is a coming-of-age story that also focuses on Raj’s role in the growth of women’s cr...

KOLKATA, INDIA - JULY 9: Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu during a promotional event of the upcoming ... [+] film Shabaash Mithu at Eden Gardens, on July 9, 2022 in Kolkata, India. 'Shabaash Mithu' is a sports biopic based on the life of legendary cricketer Mithali Raj. It follows her story from being a newbie to becoming one of the towering personalities in the game of cricket. (Photo by Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Hindustan Times via Getty Images Taapsee Pannu’s much-talked-about film Shabaash Mithu saw a dismal performance at the Indian ticket windows and the film made a meagre $0.05 million on the first day of its release on Friday, July 15. Based on the life of Indian cricketer Mithali Raj, Shabaash Mithu traces her journey from her childhood to the struggles she faced as she took the Indian women’s cricket team to the ICC World Cup finals, twice. The film has been directed by Srijit Mukerji (of Begum Jaan and Sherdil The Pilibhit Saga fame). Shabaash Mithu collected $0.22 million over the first four days of the film’s release. The other Hindi film that released in theatres this weekend - Rajkummar Rao’s latest outing - HIT The First Case - managed a better collection over the first weekend of its release. After making an opening collection of $0.16 million on Friday, the film has earned $0.699 million over the weekend in Indian markets. Rao’s film has earned $0.75 million in four days of the release while Pannu’s movie got a total of $0.22 million till ...