5 cricket movies to watch in the absence of matches due to coronavirus

Jannat (2008)

Director – Kunal Deshmukh.

Writer – Sanjay Masoom.

Producer – Mukesh Bhatt.

Cast – Emraan Hashmi, Sonal Chauhan, Sameer Kochhar, Vishal Malhotra, Javed Sheikh, Vipin Sharma, Shakeel Khan, Abhimanyu Singh.

Streaming platform – Prime Video.

Released in 2008, ‘Jannat’ is based on the infamous facet of “spot-fixing” in cricket. Arjun Dixit, played convincingly by Emraan Hashmi, is a streetwise youngster with a knack of predicting outcomes in cricket.

The movie puts on display his rags-to-riches journey of being an illustrious match-fixer in cricket. Given the legality of the profession, Arjun and wife Zoya Mathur (Sonal Chauhan) face due ramifications which find the former in deep trouble.

In addition to a movie which was liked by the majority more than a decade ago, Jannat also encompasses of a stellar music album which further adds meat to the movie.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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