A grumpy boxing coach takes on a young, rebellious woman under his wings and starts training her for the world championship. But their biggest battle has to be fought outside the ring.
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Reno
7
By Reno
> One can only show their passion for something, it's the others who are able to see their talent.
Inspired by the boxing culture of the north Chennai. It tells how Indians took the sport in their hand and mastered it, specially this film focused on the women boxing. It is definitely a confident boosting film if you are an ambitious sportsperson. But looks like its for adults due to too much use of the rude language. That really did surprise me, because it is expected for a Bollywood film, but Kollywood has a different culture and it was very strong.
It was not actually about Madhavan, he was just a coach like sharookan from 'Chak de India'. So it is about a young girl named Madhi, who hailed from a poor fisher family. Without any education and social manners, how she makes her fortune turnaround after a new chief boxing coach finds her passion and skill towards the sport. The remaining narration is all about her journey from the slum to the boxing championship.
It kind of reminded me the story of a flower girl from the streets who makes to the high society in the film 'My Fair Lady'. Except here, it was replaced by the boxing. With a bit of romance, music/musical, humours, as well as rivalries and corruption this film is a quite entertaining. Well directed film, but I'm slightly not happy with the screenplay. Because, no doubt, it is a fine theme yet too much localised for domestic market. As a result, if you're an International audience, there's an issue to understand the culture and language translation the loses its originality in the subtitle.
And one more thing is that the background score was good, but disappointing songs, though its video was decent. Awesome performances, especially by Ritika Singh, and Madhavan. The tale was told from his perspective, but Ritika takes the lead with her skillful show in the both, acting and boxing. For the Indians it is surely a must see and one of the best sports films in the recent time, but for the rest of the world, it falls into a decent category.
7/10
