If there’s anyone who understands the lasting impact of the first impression, it has got to be the film director tasked with luring the audience with an impactful trailer. As though condensing a three-hour narrative into a three-minute teaser isn’t challenging enough, a director must also make this first glimpse so irresistible that cinemagoers begin to count down to the day of the release. Evidently, then, Ajay Devgn intended to leave no stone unturned when presenting his long-in-the-making sports film, Maidaan, the trailer of which was edited by the team that deftly chops the movies of the likes of Christopher Nolan.

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