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[wpdavid]

It looks like a lot of fun, am keen to see it.

What is fascinating is the casting - Sandeep Patil, Malcolm Marshall and Gordon Greenidge are all played by their real-life sons, while Joel Garner is played by Jason Lloyd (Clive's son) and Larry Gomes is played by Tagenerine Chanderpaul!

And just to make it all very meta - Mohinder Amarnath is played by Saqib Saleem, but his father Lala Amarnath is played by...Mohinder Amarnath.

And, unless I'm mistaken, that's the real Kapil Dev making a cameo appearance to catch one of 'his' sixes in the crowd during the 175 innings against Zimbabwe. And yes, I really enjoyed it.

 

[Anil]

How does it end?

Spoiler

the hero singlehandedly destroys the villain and his nefarious organization, rescues the heroine. they get married, have two beautiful kids and live happily ever after.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Spoiler

the hero singlehandedly destroys the villain and his nefarious organization, rescues the heroine. they get married, have two beautiful kids and live happily ever after.

Awwww I love a happy ending

 

[OverratedSanity]

And we all win ?

Well, except the West indies

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Well, except the West indies

Yes ;(

 

[_00_deathscar]

Well, except the West indies

****’s sake put it in spoiler tags! Don’t ruin the movie…

 

[Marius]

Finished watching it last night, I must say I quite enjoyed it. Thought the production values were very good and they got the bowling actions etc pretty spot on.

Some of it was a bit cringe but that's probably because I miss some of the cultural nuances etc, not being an Indian.

 

[honestbharani]

Definite cringe moments thrown in there but surprisingly lesser than I actually thought there wud be. And you gotta realize the struggle of these guys who were really not professional cricketers and even those who were, were makng so little from the game. The thing that happened with Sandhu tended to happen to most players who were not the top 5 or 8 in India.

 

[cnerd123]

Was the Sandhu thing real? Seems like a bit too personal to just make up for the movie.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Can we just talk about what an absolute uggo they chose to play Imran Khan? Had to be deliberate - and hilarious.