Shabaash mithu review

Shabaash Mithu Movie Review Rating: Star Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vijay Raaz & ensemble. Director: Srijit Mukherji Shabaash Mithu Movie Review: Ft. Taapsee Pannu( Photo Credit – Shabaash Mithu Poster ) What’s Good: the approach is not such that the story is focused on the main match creating a climax, but it is the journey that you must actually see. What’s Bad: The obvious clichéd sports biopic troops that end up making the movie resemble things we have already seen and blurs the voice. Also, no one clearly ages in this universe. Loo Break: It’s a long film, there is a predictable chunk that plays up and you will get the hint. Watch or Not?: There is nothing that would create a strong impact on avoiding this one. You must give it a chance at least for a very gripping first half. Language: Hindi Available on: In Theatres Near You. Runtime: 163 Minutes User Rating: With ‘cinematic liberties taken’, this is a visual account of the life of the glorious former Indian Women’s Cricket team Captain Mithali Raj who created a dent in the system and made the world shift their gaze towards women in sports. ( Photo Credit – A Still From Shabaash Mithu ) Shabaash Mithu Movie Review: Script Analysis The surge in content revolving around sports and especially biopics has almost trained our minds to automatically predict the storyline and if it doesn’t serve a hooking introduction, just quit it. Because 9 out of 10 times the blueprint ends up looking the same and that creates zero to no impac...

Taapsee Pannu’s long-awaited biopic drama ‘Shabaash Mithu’ was released theatrically on July 15. Mithali Raj’s journey, as one of India’s top cricketers, deserves to be shared. Taapsee Pannu starrer takes a clear stand on a few socially important issues. However, no movie is without shortcomings, and this one, too, occasionally gets trapped in the conventional biopic cliches. Shabaash Mithu is directed by Srijit Mukherji and financed by Viacom18 Studios. Many scenes in the film were apparently recorded at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. 5. Direction & Music Details Taapsee Pannu’s film traces the story of recently retired Indian cricket captain Mithali Raj. Her 23-year career has been studded with laurels and milestones, including setting the world title for highest individual Test score at the age of 19 and becoming the first Indian skipper to represent the country in two World Cup finals. Overall, Shabaash Mithu demands watching in order to track the journey of Mithali Raj, the lady who has been significantly credited for the phenomenal growth of Indian Women’s Cricket over the past 20 years. Shabaash Mithu Star cast: Taapsee Pannu , Vijay Raaz, Inayat Verma, Kasturi Jagnam, Brijendra Kala, Ramsingh Falkoti, Sampa Mandal, Mumtaz Sorcar Shabaash Mithu Director: Srijit Mukherji On Twitter, netizens have voiced their opinions about the movie. On the one hand, there are those who lauded Taapsee’s effort and described it as an “authentic” one. On the other hand, other users ...

'Shabaash Mithu' review: Taapsee Pannu plays celebrated cricketer Mithali Raj in a new biopic that showcases Raj's journey from childhood to the 2017 Women's cricket world cup where she led the team to the finals. The film highlights the years of prejudice that the women's cricket team had been facing and how they overcome it. Sports biopics usually have a set template. You have a protagonist who is gifted and talented from childhood. Someone sees a spark and nurtures that talent for a few years. The protagonist in his journey faces multiple hurdles, in form of rivalry, injury, and opposition from family but ultimately manages to outshine and prove his or her worth in the climax of the film. Srijit Mukherji's latest, Shabaash Mithu' follows the template to the tee. But does it leave a lasting, defining impression? Only in parts. Based on former Indian Women's Cricket team captain Mithali Raj's life, 'Shabaash Mithu' pans out over 162 minutes and describes her early life, her induction into cricket, her influences in life and her rise in International cricket. The story is a familiar one- primarily because Raj is a celebrated name in sports in the country and also because the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup is still fresh in everyone's memory. A tournament in which Raj led as a captain for the Indian team and played stupendously well, compelling the country to sit up and take notice of the women's cricket team in India. When the story is all too familiar, the challenges mult...

Women in sport. Sporty women. It doesn’t matter how progressive the nation is, but young women who choose to dedicate their lives to sporting excellence have their struggle cut out, whether it is family or the world outside, inimical to female drive and ambition. Mithali Durai Raj, the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, not only carved out a shining, inspirational career for herself, but was responsible for raising the bar for Indian women’s cricket. That’s the stated intention of bio-pic ‘Shabaash Mithu’, headlined by Taapsee Pannu, and helmed by Srijit Mukerji. The film begins with a winsome childhood portion, in which two little girls, hothead Noorie (Jagnam) and graceful, doe-eyed Mithali (Varma), find common cause thwacking a ball around with a makeshift bat. The footwork in Mithu’s Bharatnatyam class comes in handy, as she learns the first rule of batting: guard your wicket, never get out. When the beats are so predictable, how do you build in surprise? The challenges of pulling off a consistently engaging film, based on a sporting figure of such recent years whose every achievement is a matter of record, are there for everyone to see. The overhang of ‘Chak De’ is strongly imprinted in a few sequences, especially in the one in which Mithali-the-captain lines up her team for an ‘introduction’ with the dismissive officials of the premiere cricketing body in India, carefully not termed the BCCI in the film. The scenes in which the enmity between a senior player...

Biographical Sports Drama Director: Srijit Mukherji Starring: Taapsee Pannu Vijay Raaz Mumtaz Sorcar Brijendra Kala New Delhi: 'Shabaash Mithu' is a formulaic biopic which also manages to stand out for its many elements including the sensitivity towards the portrayal of its subject: Mithali Raj's journey to great heights. Taapsee Pannu is A-Game in the titular role Mithu/ Mithali Raj and like in all her films manages to bring an earthiness to her character's portrayal. 'Shabaash Mithu' opens to one fine dawn with Taapsee as Mithali Raj taking a run. In that 10 second shot, the entire angst of a young woman cricketer in India is revealed and thus a tonality set for what is to follow. This shot is followed by the conventional song opening sequence with 'Fateh' sung by Romey and Charan. In the opening sequence, we interestingly see men and boys playing cricket in all shades and moods like gully cricket and how inbuilt it is in our psyche as kids. What one finds striking is the juxtaposition of a victory song with men playing cricket in a film which is about the journey of a female cricketer Mithali Raj. For the unaware, Mithali Raj is regarded as one of the greatest female cricketers. She holds numerous international titles and awards. Mithali also happens to be the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket. It's immediately with the opening sequence and the first half of the film that its maker Srijit Mukherji establishes a sort of feature film that doesn't really ...

The trail-blazing Indian cricketer Where’s the fire, you want to ask after the 163-minute Shabaash Mithu. Frozen as a feminist symbol who Taapsee Pannu plays the leading run-scorer in women’s international cricket with a tanned face, a mild overbite and a morose air that belies her achievements. Whatever joy Mithali feels from connecting bat to ball is all in the early sections of Priya Aven’s screenplay, in which a young Mithali (Inayat Verma) applies her Bharatanatyam lessons to cricket. Egged on by Noori (Kasturi Jagnam), Mithali begins to tap into her inner batting genius. Noori is the self-declared Vinod Kambli to Mithali’s Sachin Tendulkar, selflessly propping up her friend. After spotting Mithali’s talent, coach Sampath (Vijay Raaz) puts her through a rigorous training regime. The prodigy is selected for the Indian women’s cricket team, which has more losses than wins on its card. Mithali’s first encounter with the group that she will later lead as captain is straight out of a prison drama, involving hazing and hostility. The current captain Sukumari (Shilpa Marwaha) epitomises the observation about how crabs behave when pooled together in a bucket. The bigger antagonist is the Indian cricket board, which privileges the better-paid male cricketers over their female counterparts. Taapsee Pannu and Vijay Raaz in Shabaash Mithu. Courtesy Viacom18 Studios/Colosceum Media. Like Neeraj Pandey’s Shabaash Mithu gets less and less curious as it crawls towards its goal. The l...