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U/A: Drama
Dir: Kabir Khan
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Pankaj Tripathi, Deepika Padukone
Rating: 3.5/5

This film has been so seemingly long in the making and thereafter waiting (for release) — with all its casting calls, like Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, making it to the press, and much later plaudits in social media out since the beginning of the release week itself — you could be tempted to believe the movie has already come, and gone. Of course, that’s not the case.

Most of the mainstream attention — and this is as mainstream an epic as it gets — has to do with how the cast of characters are so widely known. In fact every few years, in commemoration of the event that this film surveys in detail, its real life protagonists get paraded on TV, revealing anecdotes on how they did, what they did, every now and then anyway. Total underdogs for a national team, that in the past, had only won one match (against East Africa) in previous editions of the same tournament!