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Too many cliches
When the film feels like you know exactly what is going to happen next... that’s when it will be difficult to hold the interest of the audience. And that’s what’s going to be most difficult for the director – to get his audiences to sit through the entire three hours.
Escape from Victory
The film opens with the lines: 'Cricket is not a game in India. It's a passion, a religion, a way of life.' The director's idea of exploiting the game's huge popularity on celluloid may have seemed terrific on paper. But at the execution level, Victory becomes one of the many assembly line productions that Bollywood churns out every year -- high on hope, low on scope.
Major flaws in the script
A sport based film is usually about underdogs, who achieve the impossible, Victory is the same. What it lacks though is the excitement of a Lagaan, the emotions of a Iqbal or the passion of a Chak De India. The pace is pretty fast in the first half, but dead slow in the second.
This one works.
Victory takes a leaf out of all the inspirational tales on sports and sportspersons that you've seen or not seen, from Chariots Of Fire to "Chak De! India", and turns it into a flourishing tree of thoughts, ideas and visuals suggesting a deep link between hopes and compromises.
An oft repeated innings
The narrative is missing dramatic moments and edge-of-the-seat action. The little drama present is old-fashioned. While the cricket scenes are competently captured, there needed to be at least one pivotal match that had you gasping.
Mirch masala fare of cricket and more cricket
Indeed, a topical story that sees the phoenix rise once again, literally with the last ball of the last match, despite a blurry vision and a broken head. It's predictable, yes, nevertheless, entertaining enough
Below average sports based film
It's great to make a film on a sport that is followed by billions of people in India, at the same time it's quite risky, as the Indian public has a great amount of knowledge about the game, its players and officials. Victory suffers from severe flaws in the storyline. Some of the sequences are outright absurd.
