In the last few years, sports biopics in Hindi cinema have become like an Indian Premier League game where the director wants the audience to be the cheerleader dancing to a rousing background score. This week is an exception, as director Jayprad Desai traces the life and times of Pravin Tambe who kept slogging away in the local division leagues …
Few Indian actors are as qualified to take on Pravin Tambe’s biopic as the Hindi-Marathi star Shreyas Talpade who first attracted the national spotlight playing a deaf-mute cricketer in Nagesh Kukunoor’s 2005 film Iqbal. is based on the inspiring true story of the Maharashtra-born Tambe who had never played first-class cricket and had tried hard to get a Ranji selection …
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