'83

"Your mettle should show in the scoreboard, not in your eyes." Kapil Dev's grounded and unassuming leadership makes for some good insights through the movie.

All the team members are unaffected and grounded and is a welcome change from the "me me" brouhaha that sometimes surrounds sports movies.

The movie's treatment aligns with Kapil's calm meter. There is not a lot of melodrama. It is almost like a cricket highlights documentary but that is fine. The movie does not try to pretend to be anything else. There were some scenes of how the soldiers fighting at the border were following the world cup. The movie would have been the same t-shirt without these threads hanging out.

Ranveer's transformation to Kapil Dev is remarkable. Teeth seemed to have protruded a little more than necessary. Otherwise, the demeanor and the conversation style all seemed to have been captured pretty well.

Casting of the players has been hit or miss. Some of them hit the right note, some may be not as much.

It is a light easy watch, meant to celebrate the champions of world cup 1983.