Peter Bradshaw 

Iqbal

Peter Bradshaw: You'll need an indulgent attitude to enjoy this by-the-book cricketing drama from India.
  
  

Iqbal
By-the-book cricketing drama ... Shreyas Talpade as Iqbal Photograph: Public domain

You'll need an indulgent attitude to enjoy this by-the-book cricketing drama from India: Iqbal (Shreyas Talpade) is a deaf and dumb boy from a poor village who dreams of being a pace bowler for the national team.

His only chance is coaching from Mohit, a former star who is now, as in all feelgood sports movies, a hopeless loser and drunk who may yet find redemption through young Iqbal's triumph.

Naseeruddin Shah lends the movie a little class as the coach.

 

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