![]() ![]() ![]() The journey Malayalam director Abrid Shine maps is a maudlin one, abjuring the feelings of male impotency fostered by Fellini in his 1953 film I Vitelloni (1953). Eventually, Rameshan lives out his dreams of cricket through his son who is selected for the under 14-district team. As Rameshan grows older, Sachin Tendulkar replaces the victory of 1983 as a new icon of hope. Rameshan (Nivin Pauly is great in the lead role), a cricket fanatic, and Sachin disciple, dreams of playing professionally but transcending the antediluvian feelings of the village and his family towards cricket, as merely a distraction becomes an intolerable trial. 1983 is set in a small village in Kerala, focusing on a tight knit group of friends who spend their days and nights dreaming about cricket. It is possibly an underdeveloped, dormant sub-genre occasionally producing some curious flourishes. I really did think by now that the Indian cricket film would be a rich little sub-genre unto itself. The success of Lagaan initiated a transitory cycle of cricket based sports film, many of them mildly successful. Sports films often function through the endless spectator pleasures of catharsis. 1983 begins with a montage revelling India’s 1983 world cup victory at Lords, a visible moment in Indian postcolonial history, imbuing the 1983 team with an inimitable political symbolism that remains seminal for Indian cricket fans. ![]()
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