List Of Bollywood Movies Based On Cricket
There have been very few films in India which are based on any kind of sports. One name that comes to mind is Jo Jeeta Vahi Sikandar and many many years before that Naya Daur, where it is a matter of life and death when Dilip Kumar races a horse carriage against a bus which is threatening to ruin their livelihood. There have also been a few which are based on the biggest sport in the country- Cricket. it is a well known fact that cricket and Bollywood has had a lover’s relationship, literally. After the world cup 2011 final win, there have been so many stories floating about cricketers dating Bollywood starlets. For example, the latest news is that Virat Kohli is dating Sarah Jane Dias and Shreesanth seems to be smitten by the super sexy Bollywood actress, Riya Sen. But even with this kind of a relationship, Cricket was always a taboo when it came to using it in Hindi movies. More often than not, the films with a backdrop of cricket, have bombed at the box office. Let’s take a look at these Hindi movies which had cricket as their backdrop. Some of the movies were hilariously disastrous until Lagaan came along and created history in more ways than one.
| | MOVIES BASED ON CRICKET |
 | Awwal Number (1990)
Cast: Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Aditya Panscholi, Ekta Sohini
Director: * Dev Anand
Music: ** Bappi Lahri
Rating: *
Short Review: The story revolves around cricket where a new star Sunny (Aamir Khan) has been included in the team in place of another famous star Ronny (Aditya Pancholi). Amidst competition between the two, there is a conspiracy going on by the terrorists to plant a bomb during the India-Australia match. DIG Vikram (Dev Anand) finds out and the rest is history. Pretty bad, uh? Hence the one star rating.
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 | Chennai 600028 (Tamil) (2007)
Cast: Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan, Premgi Amaren and Aravindar
Director: *** Venkat Prabhu
Music: ** Yuvan Shankar Raja
Rating: * *
Short Review: This is a Tamil language film which is supposed to be really funny. The movie is based on two rival groups, Rockers and Sharks. Raghu is in the Rockers and he moves into the sharks town and then he soon fights with rockers and then joins the sharks. In the climax, Karthik gets shot and he is unable to play the finals. (Don’t really know what to say. Pretty boring, it seems) |
 | Stumped (31st January 2003)
Cast: Raveena Tandon, Suresh Menon, Anjan Shrivastava, Viju Khote, Mac Mohan, Asha Sachdev, Amin Gazi, Vinod Singh, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid, Zaheer Khan and Ravi Shastri, Smita Hai and Anjana
Director: * Gaurab Pandey
Music: * Shamir Tandon, Pritam Chakraborty, Dhruba Jyoti Phukan, Eric Pillai
Rating: * *
Short Review: This was Raveena Tandon’s debut Home production, which starred cricketers like Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Ravi Shastri and Rahul Dravid. But none of them could salvage this losing match. |
 | Dil Bole Haddippa (2009)
Cast: Rani Mukherjee, Shahid Kapoor, Anupam Kher
Director: * Anurag Singh
Music: * Pritam Chakraborty
Rating: *
Short Review: A Typical Punjabi girl disguises herself as a man and joins the cricket team to play in the cricket world cup (??!!). I guess, this says it all, doesn’t it? Rani Mukherjee at her worst. Wait, there’s more. She then falls in love with the cricket coach, Shahid Kapoor. (Yipeee, she’s the man). Note- Every member associated with this disaster is eligible for the BollywoodFilmy Film-Fart Awards.
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 | Jannat (2008)
Cast: *** Emraan Hashmi, Sonal Chauhan
Director: ** Kunal Deshmukh
Music: **** Pritam Chakraborty
Rating: ***
Short Review: A reckless young man, Arjun, is a gambling addict who finds Zoya which leads him on to bigger games. From playing card games for gambling, Arjun moves up the ladder to become a bookie and finally as a runner for the mafia, fixing cricket matches. The story was decent and the performances and direction were passable. What salvaged this movie was its music by Pritam. |
 | Iqbal (2005)
Cast: * * * * Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Shreyas Talpade
Director: * * * * Nagesh Kukunoor
Music: Sukhwinder
Rating: * * * *
Short Review: A amazing story about a deaf and dumb boy who wants to play cricket in the national team. Ridiculed by his own father and others, Iqbal (Shreyas Talpade) finds out about a old drunk (Naseeruddin Shah) who was once a famous player but never made it into the Indian national team although he had the potential to. Iqbal asks the drunk to coach him. After a lot of struggle, Iqbal finally manages to make it into the Indian national cricket team. A classic format of the underdog winning story, Iqbal scored big time with the audience. Subhash Ghai produced this film and Nagesh Kukunoor’s direction started to be taken seriously after this film.
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 | Lagaan (2001)
Cast: * * * * * Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelly, Paul Blackthorne
Director: * * * * * Ashutosh Gowariker
Music: * * * * * A. R. Rehman
Rating: * * * * *
Short Review: The movie beyond all movies. Lagaan was nominated for the Best Film In A Foreign Language at the Oscar Academy Awards. Need I say more? A film based in the 19th Century in an imaginary Champaner village of India when the British were ruling. Due to some fracas between Bhuvan (Aamir Khan) and the British Office of the cantonment, Russel (Paul Blackthorne) about the tax (Lagaan) the villagers need to pay to the British, it is decided that the whole issue will be resolved by playing a cricket match. If Bhuvan and the villagers win, they do not have to pay Lagaan for 3 years and if they lose they have to pay three times the tax. A matter of life and death, Bhuvan goes about convincing his fellow villagers to join him in this fight for freedom against the oppressor. Along with this there are other tracks in the movie about the love triangle brewing between Bhuvan, his lady love from the village, Gauri (Gracy Singh) and the British white girl, Elizabeth (Rachel Shelly). The film was extremely unique as far as the story and the treatment was concerned and the music by the Oscar Winning composer, A.R. Rehman was outstanding. Click Link to:
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Click below links to take a look at more sports based movies in India.
- Sports Based Films In Bollywood
- List Of All Sports Based Films Ever Made
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