All Rounder

All Rounder is a cricket based film in 1986. If we watch this movie we feel this was the inspiration for Harman Baweja's Victory. Troubles in an upcoming cricketer's life is the main story line for this movie. Director Mohan added a brother sentiment also to the movie. Rati Agnihotri played the female lead in All Rounder.



Ajay (Kumar Gaurav) is a very big fan of cricket and he has good talent also in cricket. His brother Birju (Raju Desai) dreams about making him a player in the Indian Cricket team. Ajay works hard towards his goal. On his way he meets many rivals. Vikram (Shakti Kapoor) hates Ajay very much. One day Vikram makes Ajay drink. Drunken Ajay creates some nuisance and due to this he loses his place in the team and selectors say that he is not eligible to play any type of cricket in India.


How he overcomes and again gets the place in the team and how he convinces his girlfriend and his brother is the remaining story.

Chamatkar

Chamatkar is Shah Rukh Khan's movie in 1991. This is a fantasy movie but involves cricket. Naseeruddin Shah played the role as a ghost which helps the hero in many situations. This is Urmila Matondkar's first commercial success.




Sunder Srivastava (Shah Rukh Khan) is a villager who has a dream to built schools for poor children. For required money he plans to send his friend to Dubai. When he arrives to Mumbai to meet his friend Prem he loses ihis luggage and money in the railway station.




When he goes to a old church there, because of him a ghost is released from it's tomb. Ghost tells Sunder that he can help him in any way to fulfill his needs. Sunder allows the ghost Marco to be with him. With help of Marco, Sunder wins a cricket match and gets a huge amount of money.

The second half of the movie mostly revolves around cricket. At the climax Marco leaves for heaven.

Fight Club - Members Only

Fight Club movie is based on the Brad Pitt starrer Fight Club. This movie was directed by Vikram Chopra. He proved once again he is not able to remake a movie properly. In Hollywood this is an out and out action movie.



But Vikram and writer Sohail Khan changed its script completely and added some family drama and sentiment scenes. This made movie to become a disaster at the Box Office.
The people who like action movie were also not interested on this movie. This movie revolves around illegal fights in under ground.

This movie had many iron legs like Zayed khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Diya Mirza, Ashmit Patel and Dino Moria. Sunil Shetty, Amrita Arora and Aashish Caudhary are the other crew in this movie. Neha Dupia made a cameo appearance.



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Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham is a football based movie, about a girl Jess who want to become a star football player like England football player Beckham. This is a British movie which was directed and by Indian directer Gurinder Chadda. This movie did a good job in England, U.S.A and India.




Jess (Parminder Nagra) is an NRI. Her parents work in Heathrow Airport. They want her to become a doctor. But she always dreams to get a star tatus as a football player. She practices football in a park regularly with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley). She says to her parents that she lost interest in football.



But her father finds out she is playing football secretly. She leaves on the day of her sister's marriage. She impresses the selectors with her performance. She gets an offer from an university in U.S.A. While she is travelling to U.S.A Beckham reaches that place to go somewhere with his wife Victoria.



Bollywood actor Anupam Kher played the role as Jess' father. This movie's success in India made Gurinder Chadda very famous. Her next film Bride And Prejudice starring Aishwarya Rai was released in India.

Awwal Number

Aamir Khan is very much interested about cricket. He is also the best friend for Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. He acted in some cricket based movies like Lagaan, all of them were became super hits and critically also received good response.



Awwa Number is also based on cricket. In this film he featured as an Indian Cricket team upcoming player. Dev Anand played a major role for this movie. His character features more powerfully than Aamir Khan's character. He only took the direction and production responsibilities.




Match revolves around a test series between India and Australia. Ronnie (Aditya Pancholi) loses place in team because of his very bad performance. He contacts terrorists to kill Sunny (Aamir Khan) who entered into the team instead of Ronnie. Terrorists' plan utilise this opportunity, by the blast of stadium they want to create problems in India. Finally Vijay (Dev Anand) overcomes all the problems and conducts test match in the same stadium.





Tight screenplay and curious scenes made this Awwal Number a super duper hit. Bappi Lahiri's music was also well noticed by audience. Aftab Shivdasani has appeared as a child artist.