‘Victory’, the Indian sports movie with cricketing stars from round the world joining Bollywood silver screen stars will be released at the Majestic cinema, Colombo from January 29 to February 4.
The week’s limited engagement release is to celebrate the international release which is scheduled in several countries.
Writing the script, filmmaker Ajit Pal, makes his directorial feature debut with ‘Victory’. The film is released by Harman Baweja.
The film will star world renowned Sri Lankan cricketers like Sanath Jayasuriya, Muttiah Muralitharan, Mahela Jayawardena, Kumar Sangakkara, Chaminda Vaas and Dilhara Fernando who would be joined by Australian cricketing great Allan Border and fellow Australian cricketers Mike Hussey, Jason Gillespie and young Brett Lee. Others in the squad include Mohinder Amarnath, Nathan Astle, Stuart Clark, Brad Hogg, Hussey, Simon Jones, Brian Lara, Brett Lee, Sajid Mahmood, Craig McMillan, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Daryl Tuffey and Ishant Sharma who will make cameo appearances in the film.
From India Harman Baweja, Amrita Rao, Anupam Kher and Gulshan Grover play the lead roles together with international cricketers.
Victory tells the story of a struggling cricketer who defies all odds to realize an almost impossible dream.
According to the storyline a father, Ram Shekhawat (Anupam Kher), saw an impossible dream for his son, the dream of making his son a famous cricketer. This is also the heroic dream of his son Vijay Shekhawat (Harman).
Hailing from the small town of Jaisalmer, Vijay Shekhawat becomes India’s latest world-class batting sensation and is catapulted into stardom.
But it is the glamour and glitter of this very demi-God status that makes the young, vulnerable small-town boy Vijay stray away from the true vocation of cricket.
Unfortunately, this leads to a loss of focus and to a miserable drop in his performance. But by the time Vijay realizes the error of his ways, it is too late. Vijay finds himself thrown out of the Indian cricket team because of disciplinary reasons.
In one fell swoop, the hero of the cricket-crazy India becomes a villain in everyone’s eyes. His father Ram Shekhawat’s dreams are shattered and the old man suffers a paralytic stroke.
This tragedy awakens Vijay’s conscience and his sense of honour. He wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his father and every Indian. Against great odds, he makes it back to the Indian team and gets to play in the finals of the Champions Trophy against Australia, where he plays a stellar role in enabling India to win the trophy.
In this match, Vijay fulfills his father’s dream and enters the pantheon of Indian cricket.
The shooting of the film was done covering a number of international cricket matches including India-Australia cricket series in Australia in January 2008 and a number of matches played in Sri Lanka. Here the film was shot at Tamil Union Ground (The Oval) Borella and other locations in and around Colombo including Indoor Nets at Battaramulla, Trans Asia Hotel and Cinnamon Grand.
On behalf of Sri Lankan, leading international film production company Film Location Services led by filmmaker and producer Chandran Rutnam will handle the production here. |
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