Azhar
Director -Tony D’Souza
Producers - Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
Sony
Pictures Networks
Writer – Rajat
Arora
Starring –
Emraan Hashmi
Prachi
Desai
Nargis
Fakhri
Lara Dutta
Azhar (Emraan Hashmi) is a
biopic of an Indian cricketer Mohammad Azaharuddin who was a former captain of
national team. He has played 99 test matches for India and after that he has
blamed for match fixing and his connection with bookies. The Indian cricket
board banned him but Azhar was not ready to accept this as he was a fighter and
he filed case against his ban and appoint his lawyer friend Reddy to fight his
case.
Azhar told each and every detail of his childhood till marriage to his
friend and lawyer Reddy, he told him that he has inspired to play cricket
because of his Nanaji (grandfather) and he has given promise to his grandfather
that he will play 100 test matches for India. Azhar has scored three centuries
in his first three test matches and became the hero of India. Then he married
with Naureen (Prachi Desai) and after 1991 he selected as the captain of the
team India. Then he fall in love with Sangeeta Bijlani (Nargis Fakhri), a bollywood
actress and then they got married.
Meera (Lara Duttta) who is fighting the case against Azhar has shown the
video footage of senior cricketers and team members of Azhar and they all were
telling that Azahar has taken lots of money for match fixing. In the movie the
sense of jealousy in players with the young captain has shown the most
important reason for giving wrong statements against Azhar. Finally after eight
years of court hearing Azhar won the case by Reddy’s help, he argues that a
sting operation has been done by a team member of Azhar and all the witnesses
has denied giving their statements in court so they could not take that as an
authentic proof. Another argument was about cricket association gives salary to
inquiry commission so they would give their decision in favour of them. Thus
Azhar won the case. Naureen and Sangeeta both have supported Azhar at his last
hearing. In end it ravels that Azhar has taken money for bookie but he won the
match he has done that because he wanted to stop that bookie for going to any
other player, and he also returned those money back to that bookie.
Before all this
blames and issues Azhar was very much favourite among the people, after this
allegation he became the worst person and villain among the people, nobody have
respect for him as we could see in the scene of gym opening but after winning
the court case he was again a hero of India. We could see that how the
perspective of people changes. Media,
newspaper and roomers plays vital role in creating an image of somebody.
The connection between public
and private life of celebrities is also presented well that how private lives
of celebrities became more controversial and how people look towards their
relations.
It could be a satire on our
judicial system that though the proofs were unauthentic, how long the process
of justice could be. Fight was very hard because no one was on side of Azhar,
but he fought alone and won and after that people supported him.
Movie is not totally based on Azhar’s life,
as there are many dramatic elements, first when Azhar says in his introduction,
“Main tin baaton k liye famous hu...”
The movie is also presented in a
dramatic way with a flashback technique, which confuses the audience. The way
of telling incidents is quite confusing; if we even miss a one link we would
miss the whole story.
