Saturday, 27 August 2011

Stand By - Movie review

STAND BY U; Sports dramaDir: Sanjay SurkarCast: Adinath Kothare, Siddharth Kher, Sachin Khedekar, Dalip Tahil*1/2National Award-winning director Sanjay Surkar is known for his critically-acclaimed Marathi films (Chowkat Raja, Raosaheb, Tu Tithe Ne and Ghara Baher), but his crossover to Hindi films deserves anything but applause.While making a point about political interference and corruption (the flavour of the season!) in football, Stand By leans heavily towards Bollywood melodrama. This is most unnecessary in what could have been a hard-hitting look at what ails Indian sports. The end result is

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