Maidan movie review: Main? Yay, Bye!

What is a movie if not a dream? Maidan is equally stunningly beautiful. I’m not sure about IMAX, which is also available for this movie, but its aesthetics certainly match the size of the big screen.

Maidan still image

Maidan
U/A: Sports, drama
Director: Amit Ravindanath Sharma
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Gajraj Rao
Rating: 2/5

I think you can see why people say that a well-shot movie was shot like a dream. What is a movie if not a dream? Maidan is equally stunningly beautiful. I’m not sure about IMAX, this movie is also available in his IMAX, but its beauty certainly matches the size of the big screen.

The filming and cutting/editing itself is a specialized skill, especially considering this is a movie about sports. Soccer on TV doesn’t look the same. Because it’s a live broadcast. This one is more patient and carefully drawn.

Stock footage of dribbling, between-the-legs drubbing, or back shots/silhouettes of the Indian football team entering the field/maidan from three Olympic Games and one Asian Games from the 1950s and early 60s. include.

What is the purpose behind all this? At the heart of this production design is the protagonist, Ajay Devgn, who has been made into such an underrated art form that he We still don’t quite understand how they quietly manage to fill various mainstream roles. In this film, his character becomes seriously ill at one point. This performance would bring him critical acclaim.

In the photo, he’s literally handed a prop, a gun stick between his lips, which he keeps blowing on while coughing, wheezing, and bleeding.

Of course, there are always legal warnings on the screen that smoking is harmful to your health. Nothing changes in the life of this determined “smoking addict”. Hmm!

Please excuse my interpretation. The only pressing thing I felt about this picture is the same thing Akshay Kumar says to his friend Nandu before the movie screening: smoking kills. Maidan In this respect, it is the longest public service announcement ever.

Cancer certainly can’t be the main villain, since we know what’s destroying the heroes. Actually, it is a strange creature that actor Gajraj Rao has brilliantly transformed into human form.

This gentleman is India’s best sports journalist, publisher, editor and reporter, someone who can “make or break governments” and blessed with a passion for football.

It’s just that this guy can’t stand the constant spectacle of the Indian football team winning or doing well, let alone competing in the world’s top events.

He has an even lower-ranking servant (Rudranil Ghosh) who runs the Football Federation. Between these two we have some of the most cliched antagonists known to cinema and humanity.

On the other hand, villainy may simply be due to circumstance. The thing is, Indians have traditionally never been great players in world-class football. However, ever since the national team had a coach named Syed Abdul Rahim, they were getting closer to some kind of glory.

Maidan is, in a sense, a previously unknown biopic of Rahim. He was from Hyderabad. Perhaps that’s why I felt that Devgn in this lead role exuded a somewhat Mohd-like vibe. Azharuddin atmosphere.

I am not qualified to fact-check this movie at this time. The series of large-scale events certainly appears to be studied, even if it may be exaggerated.

Faithfulness to the facts is not the measure of a good movie.get something great Chakde!India (2007) for example. Based on the life of Mir Ranjan Negi, a former goalkeeper and legendary hockey coach, the film stars Kabir Khan, a Muslim protagonist, and questions patriotism instead of religion.

That was the central conflict of Chak De! It clearly has nothing to do with Negi’s own life. But it became a legitimate story.

In fact, given the subject matter of big-budget Bollywood films, Maidaan will inevitably be benchmarked against Chak De. Or why it was such a good movie. The reason is too obvious. Chak De was meticulously scripted by Jaideep Sahni and was loyal to the players and coaches of the team.

This team has a coach, but very little of note. But it feels like a complete federation wrote this movie, as random, unrelated events keep happening. It was.

Just count the names listed in the screenwriting credits on Wikipedia. Director Amit Ravindanath Sharma (Thevar, Badhaai Ho) also stars Saiwin Quadras, Aman Rai, Atul Shahi, Ritesh Shah, Sidhant Mago, Akash Chawla, Arunava Joy. Sengupta is listed.

Maybe that’s the problem. Imagine handpicking such great faces to reprise the roles of great Indian football stars like PK Banerjee, Neville D’Souza and Chuni Goswami. But we rarely delve into their lives, let alone their motivations.

Instead, it focuses on two bumbling Bengalis as salt-and-pepper villains who indulge more in Gondogol and Golmaal than Rosogolla and Sinhala. The story is still over 180 minutes long. At some point after half-time in Maidan, a voice was heard saying, “Okay, it’s over.”