Shabaash Mithu, a movie primarily based on the lifetime of cricketer Mithali Raj, starring Taapsee Pannu, will launch in cinemas on 15 July. The sports activities drama has been directed by Srijit Mukherji and produced by Viacom18 Studios.
To make sure, Indian cinema’s love for sports activities biopics is clear within the variety of movies slated over the subsequent few months. Maidaan starring Ajay Devgn as real-life soccer coach Syed Abdul Rahim is slated for this June, whereas filmmaker Luv Rajan, recognized for movies like Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety and Pyaar Ka Puchnama, has introduced a biopic on cricketer Sourav Ganguly.
Extra lately, Hindi movie trade additionally turned to the particular style of ladies and sports activities movies to drive theatrical audiences, as actual slice-of-life tales emerge and female-led cinema finds extra favour on the field workplace. Final March, T-Collection launched Saina, primarily based on the lifetime of badminton participant Saina Nehwal, starring Parineeti Chopra.
Media consultants say that since filmmaking is a enterprise and for sports activities films to be interesting, the narrative should be married to one thing that can be commercially profitable.
“So, while you’re selecting folks whom you’ll speak about, they should be topics that may click on and whose life has already discovered a sure foreign money. And sport is one such topic which is of curiosity to folks,“ Prasoon Joshi, author of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, a biopic of Milkha Singh, had stated in an earlier interview to Mint.
Making a sports activities biopic has some in-built benefits. For the audiences, they provide the appeal of watching film stars assume the roles of recognized sports activities personalities, pushing themselves out of conventional consolation zones and looking for important appreciation. Additional, there are particular advertising and marketing alternatives these movies lend themselves to, permitting for a number of company partnerships, and resonating with folks because it’s a narrative of human triumph.
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