It’s a simple, linearly progressing drama. It has covered almost everything we grew up watching and experiencing and will not get tired explaining to our children.Īs for the movie, there is nothing much to judge. His unparalleled 100th hundred or his milestone of first ever 200 not out runs in one day international. Be it his four sixes against Abdul Qadir when he was at his peak or when he sent Shane Warne’s balls out of the park at Sharjah. It portrayed every single moment we want to live again and again. A naughty middle-class Bandra boy who went on to become youngest Indian cricketer to play for his country. The film revisits the life and time of Tendulkar. It’s not that filmmakers deliberately try to make you cry but it’s the impact that Sachin has created which automatically make you emotional. His ups and downs throughout his career make you smile but at the same time leave you teary-eyed too. The footage from Sachin’s personal life, his connection with his family, friends, fellow cricketers, coaches, and mentors are heart-warming to watch. There are some moments in the film which we didn’t know about. It is the story of how a single person changed the definition of cricket, how he single-handedly stopped the time in India and how he lived a dream and inspired people to dream big. It’s not just about an extraordinary personality but about an ordinary person’s journey to do extraordinary things. It’s the journey of the biggest cricketing superstar ever to walk on the face of the earth, who spent 24 years carrying the burden of expectations of a country of a billion people. There is nothing that we don’t know already. It made me really happy that they made it into a docu-drama and not a feature film because I feel that a full-length feature film couldn’t have done justice with those 24 years of Sachin’s life. Today, when James Erskine finally gave pictures to those words, and I went to watch it on the silver screen, it was more like a nostalgia for me and surely for million others. I could see Sachin narrating his own life story. I could picture every single word written into it. It was the making of a living God.Īround two-and-a-half years back when I was reading this book, somewhere in the back of my mind I was imagining it to be made into a movie. This was going to become a reason for a billion people to watch a game as religion and him as God.
This was an evolution that was going to create a revolution in coming years. This was just the beginning of a small boy’s journey to become a gentleman. –, Sachin Tendulkar- Playing It My Way- My Autobiography. He had done everything for the wicket and deserved the dismissal.”
The keeper fumbled the take and the bowler looked distraught at the missed opportunity. Rather, it was a good ball and I knew I had been comprehensively beaten. While I didn’t consciously mean to show sympathy to the bowler, it was one of those moments that are difficult to explain.
It was the only time I was out in that season’s competition. Yet I did not go back to the crease and instead started walking back to the pavilion, allowing the wicket keeper to complete the stumping. But the ball went on to elude the keeper and within a fraction of a second, the bowler’s expression turned from euphoria to despair as he saw the missed stumping opportunity. I was out stumped to an off-spinner who was hearing- impaired and I vividly remember the expression on his face when I was beaten by a beautifully flighted delivery. “I started out with a hundred in the first match of the season, scoring 125 before getting out, and it was a dismissal I have never forgotten. It might sound biased but let me be biased for once. So whatever follow is NOT A REVIEW, it’s just an experience of a Sachin Fan. And I believe you can’t rate or review your emotions. There was a time when he was not just one player, he was a complete team. When he was on the crease, no score was big enough. He was a T20 player in the time of test cricket. Till the time he was in the team, no one ever asked, “India ne kitna banaya?” Everyone has only one question, “Sachin ne kitna banaya?” He was master of technic.
Disclaimer: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar- The popular name in every Indian household since 1989.
0 kommentar(er)
