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Starring:
Aadinath Kothare, Siddharth Kher, Sachin Khedekar,
Manish Chaudhary, Nagesh Bhosle, Hazel Crowney
Direction:
Sanjay Surkar
Stand By is about football
and the central plot is that we have an Indian coach who
aspires to make his team an international standards.
Even this film has differences with the Indian sporting
body and an effort to keep it purely on merits of the
footballers and get politics out of the game.
National award winning director Sanjay Surkar shows how
the influence of powerful politicians plays a key role
in a team selection and how the rich-kids or the
influential ones get a chance to play, whereas the
really talented guys slog it out to make a mark.
Stand by is a story of two friends Rahul (Adhinath
Kothare) and Shekar (Siddharth Kher), who play football
for the state of Maharashtra. Their lives change as this
beautiful game turns ugly and the fate of the
footballers is no longer decided on merits.
Things come to such an
extent that the influential father plans to kick Rahul
out of the team and get his son selected in whichever
twisted way possible.
There is a conspiracy to exclude Rahul and the film has
its highs and lows that disturb you especially the
matter of rivalry between one-time-close buddies
Standby moves at a steady good place and the pace is
maintained throughout.
Why is there an obsession with songs with our bollywood
films? An item number in this film about sport??? Such
things leaves one irritated in this otherwise well made
film.
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The thick friends share a common passion - football. While
Rahul is rooted to the ground, Shekhar the son of a
millionaire father Dalip Tahil, has a carefree attitude in
life.
An influential business icon wants to see his son in the
national football team. This leads to feud with his son's
best friend as he too is a budding soccer aspirant.
Both are talented footballers, while Rahul makes it to the
list riding on his merit, Shekhar’ care-a- damn attitude
on the field loses him a place in the national football
team. The illustrious father of this rich kid leaves
nothing unturned to get his son included in the national
team.
Adinath Kothare and Sachin Khedekar are just awesome.
Sachin Khedekar as the upright father with a dream for his
son is willing to sacrifice even his life.
Siddharth Kher delivers a decent performance. Stand By has
what it keeps it in bollywood – the cheers and tears in
the film.
What follows is a dirty game of cheap politics that has
marred our sports administration for years and never
allowed the sport to develop thereby ruining lives of
young and talented sportsmen and the lovely sport of
football in our country.
Stand By explores the aspect of human relationships - What
happens when one man’s passion becomes the other man’s
obsession.
- Aniz Filmvala
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Credits & Crew:
Banner - BRC Production
Producer: Prakash Choube, Sagar Choube
Director: Sanjay Surkar
Lyricist - Swanand Kirkire
Music Director - Aadesh Shrivastav
Cinematography - Sanjay Jadhav
Choreography - Remo D'Souza
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Cast:
Adinath Kothare - Rahul Narvekar
Sachin Khedekar - Damodar Narvekar
Dalip Tahil - Jayprakash Verma
Avtar Gill - Shrivastav
Nagesh Bhonsle - Satam
Siddharth Kher - Shekhar Verma
Surendra Pal - Tiwari
Manish Choudhary - John Williams
Yana Gupta appears in an item number |
