The dry run of the box office continued as a recent film that brought the life story of a legendary women cricketer of India could not see success. On day one of its release, the film barely managed to get Rs 50 lakhs. The amount collected by the film is a letdown as the team gave multiple interviews in all the metro cities including Hyderabad.
Yes, we are talking about Shabaash Mithu starring Taapsee Pannu in the lead role in the biopic of legendary cricketer Mithali Raj. Keeping the film's performance aside, Taapsee Pannu gave a brilliant performance and she went into the skin of the character.
But the film could not get the essence right and the film ended up as a disappointment. Shabaash Mithu is the latest film to get into the list of sports biopic after M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story and Sachin: A Billion Dreams, based on the life stories of ex-cricketers Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar respectively.
Just like 83, Shabaash Mithu also became a sports biopic that was not owned by the audiences. The Tapsee starrer also showed us why making a sports biopic is tricky in India.
When MS Dhoni's biopic was released, there were not many such films and Sachin's biography also banked on the same which is not the same with Shabaash Mithu. Almost all sports films have a similar storyline. The lead character comes from a humble background and reaches the peaks and how the character overcomes the struggles becomes the story.
As all the films have the same line with a few changes, the director needs to create magic on the silver screen with a tight screenplay that makes the audience glued to the screen.
The sports biopic has touched on the interesting points of how Mithali Raj was selected for the team and how she was made the captain of the team despite not having experience and how her fellow teammates had issues in accepting the new development.
As the other films also had similar points, they needed an extra effort from the director to make the watchers connect to the emotions. But director Srijit Mukherji could not succeed in that.
Yes, we are talking about Shabaash Mithu starring Taapsee Pannu in the lead role in the biopic of legendary cricketer Mithali Raj. Keeping the film's performance aside, Taapsee Pannu gave a brilliant performance and she went into the skin of the character.
But the film could not get the essence right and the film ended up as a disappointment. Shabaash Mithu is the latest film to get into the list of sports biopic after M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story and Sachin: A Billion Dreams, based on the life stories of ex-cricketers Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar respectively.
Just like 83, Shabaash Mithu also became a sports biopic that was not owned by the audiences. The Tapsee starrer also showed us why making a sports biopic is tricky in India.
When MS Dhoni's biopic was released, there were not many such films and Sachin's biography also banked on the same which is not the same with Shabaash Mithu. Almost all sports films have a similar storyline. The lead character comes from a humble background and reaches the peaks and how the character overcomes the struggles becomes the story.
As all the films have the same line with a few changes, the director needs to create magic on the silver screen with a tight screenplay that makes the audience glued to the screen.
The sports biopic has touched on the interesting points of how Mithali Raj was selected for the team and how she was made the captain of the team despite not having experience and how her fellow teammates had issues in accepting the new development.
As the other films also had similar points, they needed an extra effort from the director to make the watchers connect to the emotions. But director Srijit Mukherji could not succeed in that.