Say Salam India

Indian cricket is always a hot concept for Bollywood directors. So many good movies came on cricket.
Say Salaam India is one among them. Actor Subhash Kapoor whom we saw in Aamir Khan's Ishq made his debut as a director. No one expected he will give this type of good output.

Say Salaam India is about four guys and a coach. Royal Heritage is a famous school where wealthy students study. This school management appoints Hari Sadu (Sanjay Suri) as their cricket coach to win their 6th championship.

The students in the school are interested about cricket but there is no discipline. He faces many problems with that team and dislikes their behaviour. Finally school management replaces coach position with Harry Oberoi (Milind Soman).

Hari Sadu reaches a corporation school where the students like cricket very much. But their P.E.T (Manoj Pahwa) always hates cricket. After facing many problems Hari Sadu starts training the corporation school students.

He plays a key role in this school's victory in the inter school cricket champion ship by winning the final match on Royal Heritage School.

This is a very good movie, a very good story and screen play. But did poor run at box office. Director did not take the proper cast. The movie did not receive good publicity and was released in a bad season.

Sanjay Suri and Milind Soman both played the coach characters well. Sandhya Mridul in the character of Sonali is very good. Music director Gaurav Dayaal gave music to match mood. Camera work from Fasaahat is really good.

Hook Ya Crook

Hook Ya Crook was Bollywood comedy thriller based on cricket. John Abraham playing the lead role. David Dhavan is the director for this movie. This movie is set to release by September 2009.



Viraj Pradhan (John Abraham) has lots of dreams about his career. He is very talented cricket player, his goal is entering into Indian cricket team. But due to the situations, he goes to jail. How this guy achieved his from prison is the story.



Genelia D' souza is going to pair opposite John in this movie. Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni has small role. Kay Kay Menon, Uday Chopra and Siddharth are the other lead cast.

Victory

Victory is a cricket based movie. Nearly forty members of real cricketers including the Indian team's present players Harbajan Singh, R.P. Singh and Yusuf Pathan appeared in this movie as a cricketers. It is a one of costliest movies made. It moves with different back drops like Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mumbai, Jaisalmeer according to the story. Debutant director Ajit Pal Mangat directed Victory and produced it too.


The story is about a young cricketer named Vijay (Harman Baweja) son of Ram Shekawat (Anupam Kher). Ram dreams of his son to becoming a great cricketer. Nandu (Amrita Rao), Vijay's childhood friend encourages him always. With his dedication and hard work he gets the place in the Indian cricket team. But after entering into the team he attracted toward having fun. Selectors remove him from the team for his poor performance.
He realises himself and identifies the difference in news about him in the media and the people. He undergoes a major operation for his back. He flies to Australia with Nandu for the operation while on that trip he starts liking Nandu. But she is not in a stage to believe him.

He returns back to India and starts practice and again regains the place in India team. At the end worrying about his injury he plays the match and wins the trophy. But when he returns home he finds that his father dead. At last Nandu meets him.


Director took cricket, the most famous game in India as his subject. He failed to show this most successful formula. Harman Baweja bagged another disaster after Love Story 2050 with Priyanka Chopra. He must wait for his next film Ashutosh Gowariker's Whats Your Rashee?.
As Vijay's father, Anupam Kher is good and Amrita also performed her character well. Anu Malik's music is very good in this movie, creating a real cricket match feel. We must appreciate the camerawork from the four guys Sanjay F Gupta, Attar Singh Saini, Gopal Shah and Vikas Sivaraman.