Maidaan Story
Inspired by the Indian national football team coach and manager Syed Abdul Rahim, who is regarded as the architect of Indian football, encapsulating the golden era from 1952 to 1962.
Maidaan Movie Cast
- Ajay Devgn as Syed Abdul Rahim alias Rahim Saab
- Priyamani as Saira Rahim
- Gajraj Rao as Roy Chaudhary
- Devyansh Tripathi as Syed Shahid Hakim, Rahim’s son
- Nitanshi Goel as Rahim’s daughter
- Aayesha Vindhara as Rahim’s daughter
- Meenal Patel as Rahim’s mother
- Rudranil Ghosh as Shubhankar
- Baharul Islam as Anjan
- Zaheer Mirza as Morarji Desai
- Madhur Mittal as Fortunato Franco
- Chaitanya Sharma as PK Banerjee
- Tejas Ravishankar as Peter Thangaraj
- Davinder Gill as Jarnail Singh
- Amartya Ray as Chuni Goswami
- Sushant Waydande as Tulsidas Balaram
- Abhilash Thapliyal as Dev Mattew
- Manandeep Singh as Trilok Singh Basera
- Vishnu G Varrier as O. Chandrashekar
- Raphael Jose as D. Ethiraj
- Jayanth V. as Arumainayagam
- Aaman Munshi as Arun Ghosh
- Sai Kishore as DMK Afzal
- Amandeep Thakur as Ram Bahadur Chettri
- Tanmay Bhattacharjee as Pradyut Barman
- Arko Das as Prasanta Sinha
- Prajwal Maski as Yousuf Khan
- Rishab Joshi as S. S. Hakim
- Vijay Maurya as Indian Commentator
- Pavitra Sarkar as Bengal Team coach
- Purnendu Bhattacharya as Doctor
- Shruthy Menon as Jazzclub singer
Maidaan Movie Review
As he scours the country for naturally gifted footballers, talent spotter and coach par excellence Syed Abdul Rahim asks a young P.K. Banerjee what makes a good player a great one. Talent, answers the latter. Talent is of no use without focus, the older man asserts in an obvious jibe at the rising football star’s cheering female fans. That truism could well be valid for Maidaan too. The film has a field day playing to the gallery and letting its focus stray in quest of sweet spots. It finds a few but misses the mark more often than not. The period sports biopic sacrifices nuance, depth and accuracy at the altar of disproportionate grandstanding.
To be fair, however, it isn’t as gratuitously blustery as Bhaag Milkha Bhaag nor as drably predictable as M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story although its runtime is roughly the same as those two films. And it certainly anywhere near replicating the range of relevant thematic concerns that defined Chak De! India.
Dribbling rather fast and loose with facts while unwaveringly adhering to recorded dates and scorelines, Maidaan, which celebrates the golden era of Indian football by bringing to the screen the story of a legendary man manager and football strategist working in a newly independent nation born amid the pain of the Partition, is a hit and run exercise that is undermined by ill-advised overkill.
Intermittently stirring, Maidaan, directed by Badhaai Ho helmer Amit Ravindernath Sharma, pits a doughty Rahim against two scheming men who spare no effort to scuttle the coach’s revolutionary plans to galvanise one of the world’s most populous – and under-performing – footballing countries.
The on-field action – there is a whole lot of it designed to showcase the skills and stamina of the players Rahim selects – jostles for space with a surfeit of off-field drama involving the protagonist’s delicate negotiations at home and on and around the field of play. Played with admirable restraint by Ajay Devgn, the character of Rahim towers over everything and everyone else in the film. That does more harm than good to Maidaan. The battles the hero fights to put together a team that cuts across regions, languages and cultures overshadow the excitement generated by the tough games his boys play against formidable Olympic and Asian Games opponents.
The sporting action, staged and captured with impressive deftness, would have been truly rousing had the two commentators – played by Vijay Maurya and Abhilash Thapliyal – not been the motormouths they are. Their constant chatter is only one example of how overwriting (which stems from the presumption that the audience needs to be spoon-fed the finer points of the game) ruins crucial parts of Maidaan.
An improbable Elvis Presley reference creeps in although Maidaan does not seek to project Rahim as a larger-than-life rockstar. Following a 10-1 drubbing by Yugoslavia at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, a snarky journalist takes potshots at Rahim. The coach quotes the King of Rock and Roll in response: “Don’t criticise what you don’t understand… You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
Maidaan would have done well to grant greater play to Rahim’s wife Saira (an incandescent Priyamani), his footballer-son Hakim and the back stories of the talented bunch of youngsters that he turned into a strong football unit. There should have been more of P.K. Banerjee (Chaitanya Sharma), whose father is cancer-stricken, the charismatic Chuni Goswami (Amartya Ray), who led India’s football squad at the 1962 Asiad, Jarnail Singh (Davinder Gill), a sturdy defender from Punjab, Tulsidas Balaram (Sushant Waydande), an impoverished and explosively talented 19-year-old handpicked from Secunderabad and Peter Thangaraj (Tejas Ravishankar), a lanky goalkeeper who stood tall against the most fearsome of strikers.
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