A teenaged boy is upset that his alcoholic father
( Raajiv Kapoor) loses the final snooker game to existing champion (Dalip Tahil). He vows to learn and master the game and bring back the lost glory for his father's sake. He also reforms the father weaning him away from alcohol. This movie is based on real events and as per the closing credits the people involved are living and in fact the character of the teenager is based on the life of the director of this movie Mridul Toolsidas.
The movie has a sluggish narrative and suffers from indifferent direction. I am sure it could have been made into a memorable movie in better hands. All it needed was better written work and smarter direction, since there is sufficient potential to bring in emotion and humour. In other words it is missing a professional touch. While the youngster ( Varun Buddhadev) has done well, the roles of his father ( Raajiv Kapoor) and coach ( Sanjay Dutt) do not impress and they suffer from miscasting. This becomes all the more relevant since snooker is not a popular sport like cricket and is also an indoor game. There is an attempt to make snooker interesting by bringing in names of Bollywood heroes to explain the different shots. Dalip Tahil does well as the arrogant and conceited champion of the previous years who feels threatened by the superb game of the teenager. The script definitely needed to be in professional hands to make a successful commercial feature film. Anyway the movie trudges along and just about manages to tell the story in an over simplistic way without any of the conventional trappings of the box office.
The movie has a sluggish narrative and suffers from indifferent direction. I am sure it could have been made into a memorable movie in better hands. All it needed was better written work and smarter direction, since there is sufficient potential to bring in emotion and humour. In other words it is missing a professional touch. While the youngster ( Varun Buddhadev) has done well, the roles of his father ( Raajiv Kapoor) and coach ( Sanjay Dutt) do not impress and they suffer from miscasting. This becomes all the more relevant since snooker is not a popular sport like cricket and is also an indoor game. There is an attempt to make snooker interesting by bringing in names of Bollywood heroes to explain the different shots. Dalip Tahil does well as the arrogant and conceited champion of the previous years who feels threatened by the superb game of the teenager. The script definitely needed to be in professional hands to make a successful commercial feature film. Anyway the movie trudges along and just about manages to tell the story in an over simplistic way without any of the conventional trappings of the box office.