Iqbal, the deaf and mute son of a farmer, has a passion for the game of cricket and seeks the tutelage of a washed-up, alcoholic ex-player.
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| Shreyas Talpade | ... | Iqbal | |
| Naseeruddin Shah | ... | Mohit | |
| Shweta Basu Prasad | ... | Khadija (as Shweta Prasad) | |
| Yatin Karyekar | ... | Anwar | |
| Prateeksha Lonkar | ... | Saida | |
| Girish Karnad | ... | Guruji | |
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Dilip Salgaonkar | ... | Bipin |
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Jyoti Joshi | ... | Farida |
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Aadarsh Balakrishna | ... | Kamal |
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Gururaj Manepalli | ... | Akash |
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Rajita Joshi | ... | Doctor |
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Srikanth Chitrao | ... | Sunil Mitra, the Selector |
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Vikram Inamdar | ... | DeSouza, the Team Manager |
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Elahe Hiptoola | ... | TV Reporter |
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Balaji Manohar | ... | Mohammed, the Team Captain |
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India - a Nation obsessed with cricket - and it is not very often one comes across anyone who loathes cricket as much as farmer Anwar Khan, who feels that it is a waste of time watching some grown men playing, not only getting paid, but costing the nation millions of lost work hours. His family, especially his wife, Saida, does not quite agree with him. As a matter of fact, she broke water when watching a cricket match with a TV set perched on a branch of a tree with almost the entire village in attendance. This is how Iqbal was born, followed by the birth of his sister, Khadija. Iqbal, though deaf and dumb, shared his mother's and sister's passion for cricket, he would tend to the buffaloes, who though all female, had been named after male cricketers, including Kapil Dev. While tending to them, he would stop and watch youngsters being trained by the renowned Guruji. When Guruji finds out about Iqbal's interest in the game, he recruits him, but lets him go when a dispute flares up ... Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
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cricket the sport | character repeating someone else's dialogue | sign language | deaf mute | underdog |Parents Guide:
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Country:
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HindiRelease Date:
20 January 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Composed by Salim Merchant and Salim-Sulaiman
Lyrics by Irfan Siddique
Sung by Krishnakumar Kunnath
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This was Shreyas Talpade's first movie to enter Bollywood. See more »Goofs
At the start of the movie when Iqbal practices bowling in the field, he closes his eyes and imagines a crowds roar as if in a stadium. He can never imagine this since he has never heard it. He clearly doesn't know what a crowds roar is like and can never have even the faintest idea about it since he is deaf and dumb since birth. See more »Quotes
Mohit: [to Guruji] For a long time I wanted to say this to you, my father and all others who wanted my good, go to HELL!See more »
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AASHAEIN...Composed by Salim Merchant and Salim-Sulaiman
Lyrics by Irfan Siddique
Sung by Krishnakumar Kunnath
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Watched Iqbal yesterday. Yes, this movie is exactly what the abundance of word of mouth on it asserts - the best movie of this year.
I don't think this is a great movie, it's just that it is so rare to see a film that works in Bollywood, which does not come from a masala genre, that works simply as a straightforward story - that this film looks all the better compared to the awful field it competes with.
Iqbal brings a smile to the face and a tear to the eye and a lump to the throat and a racing of the heartbeat in slight twist and sweet turn and more than makes up for the time and money it takes to invest in watching a film - much more than that.
Nagesh Kukunoor's minimalist narration (enhanced by rousing music by the creative genius duo of Salim Sulaiman) that we saw in his earlier films is here perfect - the rustic ambiance of the film seems to pervade the storytelling too.
The film reminded me of Million Dollar Baby and Shwaas at times - MDB, because of the minimalism & struggle against odds; Shwaas, because of the sweetness of the tale.
Lovely, lovely film.