A great country that India is… unfortunately sports like boxing get step motherly treatment in contrast to the blue eyed cricketers who rake in billions. Medal the film puts forth the realistic view of the plight of boxers who bring laurels to the country, yet face a bleak future. Medal movie review…
It is very unfortunate that in a country of over a billion the sport of boxing doesn’t figure as the favourite of the masses. Who shall we blame? The aam junta or the system, governance or the television media? Barrng the game of cricket, there is no sport which assures all the goodies of life, with the least being of security for the rest of the sportsperson’s life in our country.
This is what Ganesh Mehta the producer – director of Medal puts forth his point.
Medal is the story of an ambitious boxer Jeetu (Muzahid Khan), whose family has its own priorities. Jeetu needs to fulfill his family needs but he has his own needs to. He works hard to get his high protein diet for boxing so that he can fulfill his dream for gold medal. To fulfill his family responsibilities, Jeetu has to leave his dream of boxing championship but he wanted to live up to his dream.
The ambition to win the gold medal motivates to fight again and again despite of his family issues. Because of his hard labour he won the world championship and was rewarded with a gold medal. But one day out of financial crisis he came to know that the gold medal was just a gold platted. The story of the film is very emotional and heart touching.
A story of an ambitious boxer whose life revolve in a dilemma to give priority to expenses of his high protein diet or his household expenses. His responsibilities for his family avert him from boxing but on the ontherside his ambition to earn a gold medal make him fight for that again and again.
The irony of life comes when at last even after winning world championship Jeetu was awarded with only ‘a gold plated medal’ which proved to be worth nothing in monetary value during the crunch moments of his life…. this is all about “Medal… pet nahi bharta”
To put it in the director’s words, the film focus on the economical turbulence of the players of the country. The film revolves around Jeetu’s victory in the world championship despite of his hardship but during his financial crisis when he hopes to meet his financial needs with the medal, he gets disappointed.
The film shot in Allahabad, Bilaspur and Mumbai, is very emotional, motivational for the young crowd as well as it also shows the darker side of the bright world of sports. Through this movie he hopes the sports administration should take steps in the benefits of the players.
Cast:
Muzahid Khan as Jeetu
Indrisha basu as Kalpana
Tanushri basak as Neeta
Ajay Sharma as Billu
Credits:
Banner – G.K. Entertainment
Produced by – Ganesh Mehta
Director – Ganesh Mehta
Writer – Ganesh Mehta
Media PR – Ashwani Shukla, Altair Media
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