To insist on verisimilitude is to confuse biopic with biography.Īt its best, a sports biopic work as allegory, its protagonist a cue for the storyteller to explore the pulls and the pressures, the physical, emotional and moral conflicts that occur deep within what premier sportswriter Gary Smith once called “the furnace of the sporting psyche.” In a biopic, accuracy is nice to have, but it is not mandatory.
Those are precisely the questions that, as the end credits roll after 132 minutes of run-time, remain unanswered.Īn extensive disclaimer at the start suggests that the movie is ‘loosely’ based on incidents in the life of Indian cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, but does not purport to be a true, factual narrative.įair enough. The questions are equally central to any exploration, fictional or otherwise, of the life and times of Mohammad Azharuddin. “ Who are you?” asks Steve Wozniak (played by Seth Rogan) of Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) in the midst of an incandescent argument in the Danny Boyle-helmed biopic on the Apple founder. Those are precisely the questions that, as the end credits roll after 132 minutes of run-time, remain unanswered, feels Prem Panicker.
0 kommentar(er)
