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

Lagaan (2001)

Director – Ashutosh Gowariker.

Writer – Ashutosh Gowariker.

Producer – Aamir Khan.

Cast – Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Rajesh Vivek, Raghubir Yadav, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Yashpal Sharma, Rajendranath Zutshi, Akhilendra Mishra, Shrivallabh Vyas, Rajendra Gupta, Daya Shankar Panday, Aditya Lakhia.

Streaming platform – Netflix.

Written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, there is no hiding to the fact that ‘Lagaan’ is among the all-time favourite movies of the Indian demography. The movie’s biggest achievement was it being nominated as the Best Foreign Language Film in the Academy Awards.

Ace actor Aamir Khan, who played the main role in the movie in addition to producing it, registered a phenomenal performance as Bhuvan.

Based in 1890s, Lagaan was a story of how villagers of Champaner struggled to pay tax to the Britishers due to a prolonged drought in the area. Despite minimal knowledge about cricket, the circumstances see Bhuvan accepting a challenge which stated that if the villagers managed to beat the Britishers in a cricket match, they would be exempted of all the taxes. However, if they end up on the losing side, they will have to pay three times the current tax.

With the movie being the oldest in this list, watch it for the sheer nostalgia it will bring to you in the current day and age.

About the author

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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