from now on Well done Mithu Trailer. (manners: Viacom18 Studios,
Throw: Taapsee Pannu, Mumtaz Sarkar, Vijay Raj and Devdarshini
the director: Srijit Mukherjee
Rating: 3 stars (out of 5)
Sports biopics, all biopics for that matter, inevitably prove difficult for Bollywood filmmakers with a tendency to miss the wood for the trees. mercifully, Well done MithuWritten by Priya Aven and directed by Srijit Mukherjee, does not go overboard with the urge to strike every ball out of the park.
Well done Mithu, who doesn’t shy away from playing some dot balls and waiting for perfect scoring opportunities, is evident for the most part of the established ticks of the genre. It opens up the story of Mithali Raj without resorting to any kind of sharpness. From the point of view of commercial viability, this can be seen as a drawback. But as far as the story is concerned, it gives some strength to the film.
Taapsee Pannu is in excellent form in the role of the protagonist. She fully immerses herself in the role, embodies her own personality and carves out an athlete and a woman who looks and feels genuine and confident even in situations that seem precariously on the edge of avoidable melodrama. appear from.
The tears, sweat and blood (literally) of a sterling sporting career serve to enhance the effect of the depiction. The nature and diligence that Pannu used in creating Mithali Raj’s real-life legend, in favor of restraint over grandeur, strikes a chord.
In the first half, the film, produced by Viacom18 and Colosseum Media, plays largely with the straight bat within the arc, which coaches have always insisted on. It brings to the fore the struggle of a middle-class girl to find her way in a game in which women are mired in oblivion. It acknowledges, and dramatizes, Mithali Raj’s role in elevating women’s cricket and earning collective respect for it.
An airport scene before Mithali’s international debut in England in the late 1990s underscores how difficult the climb was for Indian women cricketers at the time. Everyone on the team has extra baggage and is asked to remove articles from their suitcases (warm clothes for most English winters) before check-in. As the girls sit in an attempt to reduce the weight of their bags, the team of men approaches the terminal with a thunderstorm from the other passengers. The boys are taken to the lounge with great fanfare. Much later in the film, a female fan (in another airport scene) shows Mithali where she and her fellow countrymen stand in relation to the male cricketers.
Well done Mithu Once the main character reaches the goal of entering the national team and stamping his class on the game, he loses his way. Kishori Mithali lands in the field running. She scored a century in her first international game (against Ireland at Milton Keynes) and then a double century two years later, the highest individual Test score by a woman at the turn of the millennium.
The film takes the audience to the point in Mithali’s life where she discovered cricket at the age of eight thanks to her best friend Noori. His natural talent is noticed by coach Sampath Kumar (Vijay Raj), who resorts to tough methods and helps him improve his batting skills and strengthen his powers of concentration. The transformation of an agile young Bharatnatyam trainee into a batsman with excellent footwork seems to be a natural progression here. Mukherjee then proceeds to turn a man’s rise in the game into a drama about the development of women’s cricket in India due to neglect and ridicule. He would have done the story much better if he had allowed the supporting characters to develop and take their rightful place in the script.
The screenplay is unable to avoid the pitfalls of playing the same figure at the expense of all others. Cricket is a team sport (which is not adequately underlined in the film) and Mithali could not have achieved what she did without her teammates at the turning point of her career.
That doesn’t mean the screenplay makes no room for a handful of his peers, most of them from modest social backgrounds, and gives them fictitious names. But that effort is not followed up with the expected details.
The daughter of a tanner from Kanpur, a girl who once worked in a mufassil tea shop, and another forged in the heat of a foundry – these few players go hand in hand with Mithali. Well done Mithu It would be beneficial if these girls were allowed to play bigger roles.
An important scene that the film certainly could have done without the confrontation between the members of the Indian women’s cricket team and the officials of the board. The dramatic culmination fixes a point but undermines the otherwise understated flow of the story. Brijendra Kala, misrepresented as the board chief, exudes straight-up self-importance. The scene could have been done with a more layered illustration.
At the other end of the spectrum is a scene in which Mithali, along with a few others, attends the wedding of the best spinner of her squad and tries to talk her about marriage as the ICC World Cup is around the corner. Mithali Raj is intent on the serious business of highlighting the hurdles India’s women cricketers faced in the early years of her career.
Mithali’s relationship with her first coach (here, Vijay Raj tries his best to provide an edge to the scenes), her childhood friend who quits cricket to get married, her rivalry with the team captain who She appears annoyed by the meteorite (a second story episode that needed some fine-tuning) and her friendship with some of her teammates is shown in the long-running film.
In cricket action sequences, especially in the final stages of the film, archival footage is mixed with the filmed portions. While coalescing is fine, there are times when you just want it to slow everything down and not lose momentum from match to match as it does. More than speed, what these routes provide to action is like a mess.
But all things considered and thanks to Taapsee Pannu’s impressive steady performance, Well done Mithu Anything but deception. The occasional false stroke taints the overall impression, but as a tribute to a cricketer whose exploits changed the fortunes of women in India’s most popular sport, it simply puts so much on the scoreboard without any abstractions. cannot be dismissed as an innings of K.