Maidaan Movie REVIEW | Sucharita Tyagi | Ajay Devgn, Priyamani

Maidaan spends too much time on the build-up, languishing among cliches and stereotypes for far too long.
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Maidaan Movie Review by Sucharita Tyagi - Maidaan isn’t so much about the heroism of the players as it is about everything that was in their way, choing to focus on the victim narrative. The missed opportunity comes more sharply into focus film ki last act mein. Its 1962 aur Jakarta mein ho rahi Asian Games meim controversy erupt hoti hai jab Indian official Guru Dutt Sondhi Indonesian government ke behavior par critical statement ek dete hain. This leads to demands of Indian temas being ousted from the game, in one scene you see a mob of violent protestors attack the bus the unsuspecting football team is in. Despite the loud hostilities, injuries, and a coach coughing up blood, the team puts its best foot forward and goes on to deliver the kind of performance that’s instantly historic. Capitalizing on the anger the film knows this display of hostility will arouse in the audience, AR Rahman’s score kicks up many many notches, as DOPs Tushar Kanti Ray and Fedor Lyass design sublime and rousing POV shots, taking you within the game, right next to the football being kicked around in the most immersive, exhilarating fashion. The sportsmen are flying in slow motion, crying, yelling, screaming, their pent up frustration letting out. Despite having watched the film for 2.5 hours at this point, all you know about these men is that the football federation has tried to stop them every step of the way, but when this sequence is handed over to AR Rahman, it comes alive, unlike the mostly static film that preceded it.
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Maidaan (transl. Field) is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film written and directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma and produced by Boney Kapoor and Zee Studios. It stars Ajay Devgn, Priyamani and Gajraj Rao, and is about Syed Abdul Rahim, a pioneering football coach in India between 1952 and 1962
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[@user-wd5te6bz4g]

This is my great grand father movie syed Abdul rahim the legendary coach of football the Golden Era of football 1952-1962. But syed Abdul rahim died with lung cancer. I am great grand son . I belong from this family and I am very thankful that ajay devgan sir playing and important role of syed Abdul rahim role in maidaan movie. If u wnt to knw more plz let me knw

[@reysh8040]

This is such a decent movie. Her review doesn’t justify the way they have shown sir Syed Abdul Rahim . An important movie to promote(in a good way) football .

[@forward8764]

yes wanna hear more

[@user-wd5te6bz4g]

How will you contact me

[@kirtigupta9753]

I was in tears watching him finally achieve the dream.

[@user-wd5te6bz4g]

I request can u make a another video and tell my name in the video so Rahim sahab and syed shahid hakim family feel proud

[@jamaicansonnets1560]

Sucharita, i think this review is severely marred by a lack of research as to the scene of sports in India back then. Firstly, cricket was NOT very popular in the 50s and 60s. It was mostly a sport played by rich folks ke launde. India on the whole wasn't a very sporty nation to begin with which is understandable cause we had more important stuff to juggle with. Also, I do not think there was any point exploring SA Rahim's religious identity here cause there's zero lore aboit it and any speculations or odd forays will only come off as disrespectful. Chak De India is a 100% fictional tale, whereas this isn't one.

[@paragkatekar]

Here's my quick response to your main remarks: The movie doesn't feel long and laborious AT ALL. Even though it did not touch upon the players' individual lives, the camaraderie shown among them with Ajay being their leader really touched me deep down. It's a sports movie, for goodness sake. Since the movie is based on a true story, I really wonder how else they could've depicted Priyamani's role. Please try to be a bit smarter in choosing a feminist's battle. AR Rahman's background score is the soul of this movie, and it only enhanced every single moment. The orchestration by the maestro is astounding. I live in Canada, and people at the theater stood up and applauded with such deep pride at the end of the movie, but your review painfully belittles this fabulous piece of art. Maidaan is the greatest Indian sports movie ever made. Period.

[@koushikmukherjee9918]

You dont judge a film like this on the technical aspects of film making, we are more than happy that someone has made a movie about the golden era of Indian Football, and in terms of portraying the history of Indian football to the people who dont know anything or have less interest in indian football I think the movie is successfully done its job.

[@ivinjames3155]

She's a film critic. It's her job bfr

[@abzfootballmaniac]

Spot on, most of these online reviewers don't know how to review and forget about them knowing even a little about football. Just ignore such idiots. This movie will definately bring India back on the Asian football map. Joy Bagan 💚❤️💚♥️

[@souvik3456]

There is a dialogue in the film " Don't Comment on what you don't understand"... Sucharita my dear u need to understand football 1st and then pen down ur expert comments...

[@ayusharyan6127]

Sometimes i am not able to fathom whether she and others watch the same movie or not?

[@RajChauhanStories]

In my honest opinion, this video is longer and more laborious, even without a pay off in the climax.

[@achlachoudhury7899]

Couldn’t watch the whole thing

[@jhinjhin00_1]

OMGG BURNNN

[@kirtigupta9753]

Not at all laborious. In fact, very well paced and most importantly had a lot of Football with adequate training montages. Fabulous rendition of the golden age of Football with great casting of actors who could actually play Football. A much better film than 'Chak De'. The hockey players didn't justify their roles while playing hockey in Chak De. Sorry, you have not played Football so you don't know how well the film was made The entire audience in the theatre gave a resounding applause when the film ended.👏

[@srinivasnahak3473]

I respect your opinion but I can tell anyone who is reading this I don't know if this movie is going to have good box office collection or not but I can tell you that it is one of the most important movie of Indian Sports History and you will enjoy this movie thoroughly!!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Waiting for that female led sports movie where the husband is mostly always crying, melancholy near a telephone because bad news has arrived and dramatically running down the stairs because the lead has triumphed in their domain.

[@SucharitaTyagi]

You know Ashwini Iyer’s Panga came very close to that. In a good way

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@SucharitaTyagi Well spotted! Jassie Gill should be the rule and not the exception.

[@nipunpurohit6029]

​@@SucharitaTyagi Jassie Gill looked so monotonous in Panga

[@Rohit-tc]

Ghoomer by R. Balki? Starring Saiyami Kher & Abhishek Bachchan!

[@Lain0007]

Sure there should be made movies with female leads and celebrated. But what has that to do with this movie? Especially when this is a biographical story based on a true story, you can't just change the gender of the lead who was a real person just because we need the variety we've been missing. Also the way priyamani was standing on the phone and crying was shown because that's how the things were back then, you can't just change portraying facts of a movie based in the past just cause of the evolving nature of ideologies in the present. Both are different things and should be talked about in the right places.

[@hrushikeshmore3841]

@sucharita your ending worth pondering question needs a slight correction "When was the last time you watched a 'India' international football match?"

[@aninditasaha2676]

I think you should have once talked to someone who actually loves football. Because it clearly feels you don't understand football. And that's why you just focused on technicalities.

[@naziasultana3152]

By the way ARR had another massive release last week, “The Goat Life”. Was eagerly looking for your review on that!

[@work-holicsharma5084]

It is wrong to judge the cinema solely by length or the no. of writers, the primary motive is to spread the stiry, I personally follow sports extensively but never knew about India's glory in football during that time, this move makes me feel ashamed yet happy and that is how it is a success....

[@subhasish661411]

Two legendary player of Bengal PK Banerjee and Chunni Goswami were part of that squad. Could have been great homage to Mr Goswami as he died just couple of years ago.

[@PARKCIRCUSFOOTBALLCLUB]

It's also peek into their lives .....

[@PARKCIRCUSFOOTBALLCLUB]

It is actually the movie is a homage to them

[@anshkharbanda2540]

Correction in last... it release on 11th and paid previews starts on 10th of April.

[@Tatopotatoo]

Pay karke boring hai bulwayenge log?

[@debadritagupta6364]

In gulf movies release on Thursday instead of Friday naa?

[@utkarshgarg8783]

If you understand football, you’d identify the details that these guys went into for filming the matches. I was in tears watching that final match not because of the emotion the actors were showing but because how the filmmakers took the pain to understand football tactics and showed them successfully from so many angles and so much intensity. The movie could have used a bit less drama and the same bland acting of ajay devagan irrespective of the genre but the boys acting and intensity was amazing.

[@ArSh4infinity]

What Chak De did so well was make us invested not only in the coach’s story but also the players and their inter-personal relationships as well

[@sholothong2494]

Dr T Ao the captain of the Indian football team is not mentioned at all????

[@dhaarmix]

It is an excellent movie. It will age well. The reviewer seems to be too impatient to watch a long movie. Legendary movies are long!

[@Madinaslifestyle]

8 writers for the film? Could it be that the film may have been better and shorter without too many cooks?

[@akshayshetty5000]

In chak de india movie , real life coach was Ranjan Negi, but in movie they showed him as muslim with imaginary islamophobic subplot

[@shreyashchauhan2899]

Haa isme main coach was Hindu.. they showed Muslim.. 😢

[@MrManagemiracles]

Almost every sports movie has to follow a certain template to a certain extent but doesn't mean that it won't be enjoyable, also results are predictable in pretty much any sports movie but the point is if it can make the audience root for the win and cheer when it happens.

[@brendonbuthello]

The film lacks in proper characterization - we don't know much about the players even at the end - just their skills in some way. The ego clashes disappear just like that. Ajay Devgn plays the role but has one-sided characterization as a coach - not much about anything else or even his past before the coaching stint. The best part about the film - 40 minutes till the climax - brilliant cinematography, sequences, and rousing score. The rest of the film is shoddy compared to Chak De India. The ingenuity needed a better foreshadowing at the early sequences - some talk about formations and why to use them could have helped too.

[@soumy1986]

PK BANNERJEE of the Kolkata Derby

[@PardeepSihag]

Visual Effects, Music, Acting & Most Important Football is good in this movie except Screenplay. Maybe they have too much to tell in limited time but their time jumps are too much. One of the Best football movie in India but having screenplay issues.

[@RVJ989]

Please review The Goat Life (Aadujeevitham) another movie with AR Rahman music🙏

[@LatinoSlant]

Great review, now subbed!

[@Infinityxd-sj7fv]

I feel like a discussion with the director regarding the choices he made with a critic would be really interesting. Especially when the film isn't great nor terrible. C'mon get Amit Sharma on! Also whenever I see multiple writers attached with a film I instantly know it's gonna be mid. PS: Most of the dramatic scenes(70%) were shot by 2019. This was supposed to come out in 2020 Nov. Only the matches were left. And then covid arrived and they finished shooting in 2022.

[@utkal7video]

Just the review is so lengthy and boring I can imagine how the movie will be..no offence to Sucharita though..I love her reviews..I don't know what happened to u Sucharita ma'am..ur reviews are so much fun before at Film Companion.

[@achlachoudhury7899]

Extremely biased and subjective review. A lot of the comments are not even factual, couldn’t watch the whole review. And it is as good as Chak De. Your logic is based on one coming before the other; which is actually illogical

[@tripathiashutosh874]

Why akashay kumar s movie gold and maidan both looks same and both have very similar plot and tone and produce by shame company no personal film making full fectory film making

[@dubeyraj1]

Dont waste my time pls

[@soniaghosh6409]

Sucharita....Really dont think your review of this movie was justified...if villains are shown as "greedily eating uncles" like you said its because government servants used to behave like that openly in a newly independent country and things were quite like this back in the 1950's and 60's....pls do better research or fact checking next time.

[@James_Bond___007]

KRK KI BETI😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@arsalakhan4515]

india cricket me bhe kuch nahi kar paiye he football to he

[@ABHlSHEK]

only genuine review

[@vkkkkv70]

This movie was destined for massive failure the moment they decided to make it about football. We are a cricket monopoly and no other sport can even remotely come close to the popularity of Cricket. Its never gonna happen, no chance, not even after billion years. Lets make movies on cricket and audience will embrace it with open arms.

[@User39814]

Football is the second most popular sport in India. Hockey is not the most popular ,but still it is a superhit. It's much more about how the movie is made, than on which sport the movie is made on. I don't know anything about basketball but the last dance was a very awe inspiring documentary. There have been many movies based on cricket which have bumbed on social media. P. S - cricket maybe the most popular in India but football is more exciting. Cricket is only played by 9 countries lmao

[@vkkkkv70]

​​​​@@User39814have you heard of Lagaan? It's the greatest movie ever made in the history of cinema and thanks to cricket and aamir khan this movie was able to unite the audience and capture the collective consciousness of the nation which no other movie has ever achieved. Till date people watch Lagaan repeatedly and it brings a smile on the faces of 7 billion people of this world. This is the greatness of cricket and magic of aamir khan which rookies like you will never understand.

[@User39814]

@@vkkkkv70 iam not saying laagan was not a great movie but you also can't ignore movies like chak de India. The thing is nobody goes to the movie theater to watch a sport. It's about how u show what goes beyond the field, So what sport is played matters the least. P. S -chak de India is a bigger hit than laagan. Just check the box office collection. 😁

[@thiagarajann3776]

Tamil Nadu has all players for Indian football team and infact entire 11 to 20 member team can easily be selected from Tamil Nadu itself. But India controlled by UP, Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra vowed not to select any from Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu as a separate independent nation can beat Brazil, France, Argentina, Croatia etc. in Football FIFA cup but sadly Tamil Nadu is just a state in India and gets beaten and thrown out in all sports by other states especially Vadakkans. Make a movie of how a Tamil Nadu players struggling to shine in all sports despite having full potential and talent that India doesn't recognise and faced numerous difficulties to play for India itself...

[@fgh8okbbffuivcjo971]

Tamil nadu is now bad in football lol they havent won a single santosh trophy then how could we say they are good Goa kerala bemgal and NE states are good in footbal along with punjab tamio nadu is not good in football even in current indian team there isnt a single tamilian playing for national team stop ur shit

[@fgh8okbbffuivcjo971]

Bengal was the pillar for indian football back in 1990s to 2000 have u heardabout mohun bagan and east bengal have u heardabout chunni goswami and pk banerjee bengal were the ones who won most number of santosh trophy titles then comes punjab and after that kerala and goa whearas tamil nadu is a big 0 in football u clearly has no idea about this sport

[@fgh8okbbffuivcjo971]

All playerswhich is that all players 🤣🤣🤣 there isnt a single player playing in indian football tram from tamil nadu even isl team chennayin fc arnt giving chances to tamil players accept it they dont know to play football

[@fgh8okbbffuivcjo971]

Lol tamio nadu is shit in foootball u clearly has no idea about football 😂😂😂 Tamilnadu hasnt won a single santosh trophy title bengal goa kerala punjab and north eastern state are powerhouseses of indian football Bengal us the highest contributer to indian football followed by punjab kerala goa and ne states

[@thiagarajann3776]

@@fgh8okbbffuivcjo971 I don't know which state you belong in India, but remember India-Tamil Nadu

[@rlsplay2817]

Vh lips

[@krupadave1975]

Film ke length se lamba review mat do.

[@user-mu8vc5vn4x]

Hindi bolo

[@nalineekantabhuyan1950]

I think you should be a movie maker ... Your movie will cross 3000 crores in the box office...

[@MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande]

Where is the Dog Bite.? GULATI

[@anupamaMall]

Another cliche sports film...

[@user-uj4cy6xm8d]

you have better things to review rather than crap like this.

[@onasunnyday366]

like what exactly..

[@user-uj4cy6xm8d]

​@@onasunnyday366like 3 body problem, and other shows and movies based on path breaking books. More shows and movies in mystery, Sci fi and fantasy gerne, etc.

[@user-uj4cy6xm8d]

@@onasunnyday366 like 3 body problem, other shows based on path breaking, or at least interesting book for example she didn't do a review on percy jackson and the olympians, etc, etc. She is actually very talented and reviewing some very intering movies like fable, which though i didn't see but loved her review. Also i don't think she did a review bhramayugam. All I am asking is to not waste her talent in commercial hindi cinema, as long as its same repetitive stuff.

[@manasmohanty4090]

Your critic style is like "dehati" ladies talks in villages. Your face expressions are very similar to them.... only new things is that you talk in English 😂

[@tanushree6735]

That's a unique compliment ✨

[@Shifa007]

Dehati English talking in English is a great achievement.

[@manasmohanty4090]

@@tanushree6735 yes ... indeed. It's a compliment.

[@experiences999]

Abe😂😂😂😂😂

[@victoryv116]

When people are shallow , they mostly talk about one look , one characterless ..you are in that person ..thank you ..

[@berserk322]

France vs Argentina world cup match was the last time I watched football

[@suriyaprakash5975]

Awesome review. Maidaan 🤣🤣🤣