Bollywood Mayanagari News Review: Film
"Shabaash Mithu"
Rating - 3/ 5
It'd Go Widely Unnoticed Even By The Female Audience
Review: Film
"Shabaash Mithu"
Rating - 3/ 5
Director - Srijit Mukherji
Written - Priya Aven
Producer - Ajit Andhare
Cinematography- Sirsha Ray
Editor - A. Sreekar Prasad
Music - Amit Trivedi
Starring - Taapsee Pannu, Vijay Raj, Mumtaz Sorcar, Brijendra Kala, Devadarshani
Filmography
Taapsee Pannu
1) Chashme Baddoor (2013)
2) Pink (2016)
3) Naam Shabana (2017)
4) Judwaa 2 (2017)
5) Mulk (2018)
6) Saand Ki Aankh (2019)
7) Thappad (2020)
8) Haseen Dilruba (2021)
9) Rashmi Rocket (2021)
10) Loop Lapeta (2022)
Srijit Mukherji (Director)
1) Begum Jaan (2017)
2) Sherdil : The Pilibhit Saga (2022)
Mithali Raj is a former Test and ODI captain of women’s national cricket team. She led India to finals of 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup. The film is based on her life chronicles and events of her life’s journey in the world of women's cricket along with her struggles and euphoric rise in the women cricket.
Plus points
1) Taapsee Pannu has beautifully portrayed the role of cricketer Mithali Raj. She has always been a choice for all sport centric movies in the past too, which she has enacted convincingly. Two child artists, Inayat Verma who enacted Mithali Raj and her childhood friend who inspires her to play cricket have given an outstanding performance. Vijay Raj as the cricket coach is impressive.
2) Film exposes the politics involved in the process of team selection due to which many deserving players fail to showcase their talents.
3) Production values are appropriate. Locations of Hyderabad and World Cup matches are good.
Minus points .
1) Taapsee Pannu being the only face value in the film fights an unsuccessful battle alone on the uneven ground pitch prepared by the writer and director with the entire responsibility on her shoulders.
2) Director Srijit Mukherji failed to give a worthwhile entertaining biopic on cricketer Mithali Raj. Film lacks thrilling moments during the exciting world cup cricket matches. He failed to show or mention achievements of Mithali Raj. For example, Mithali had a 23 years long run in her career and was part of 6 World Cups in which she captained 4 of them with score of over 10,000 runs breaking 8 World records. A big achievement but no where to be mentioned. Only the world cup lost by India by 10 runs is picturized.
3) Music is weak. Usually sports film have at least one hit song as their anthem but it's absent here.
4) Story is half-baked and doesn't show the efforts and hardships of Mithali Raj. Too many loopholes! Screenplay is strictly functional and doesn't hold your attention. Except for a few dialogues of Tapsee Pannu in the world cup final, the rest are mundane.
5) Editing is not sharp. The pace throughout is slow. It's a tedious watch. A good 30mins editing is what the film requires.
Box Office Verdict:
Though the film's subject is unique (biopic of a woman cricketer), it'd go widely unnoticed even by the female audience as it fails to have a proper content. Not every film can work wonders like "M.S.Dhoni". Unfortunately we do not hear the cash registers ringing at the box office. Here's another flop in the second half of 2022!
--Narendra Gupta
Film City,
Kingstar,
Movie Biz,
Bollywood Mayanagari News
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