Ravi Kapoor, Suresh Oberoi, Zakir Hussain, Ehsan Khan, Manisha Chatterjee, Saba Karim, Nikhil Chopra
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World Cupp 2011 is a film by debutant director-actor Ravi Kapoor. The film is based on cricket and it also exposes the links between underworld and cricketing world. Director Ravi Kapoor seems confused to pack in too many genres into one.
The film reveals the story of Indian cricket team's captain Ravi Indulkar (Ravi Kapoor), who gets lured by the bookie lord Shobhan's (Zakir Hussain) huge bribe during the World Cup game against Pakistan in 2007.
Ravi, along with his four team mates - Rajpal, Hiten, Irfan and Balwinder, ends up throwing the match away resulting in India's loss. They are however later exposed by a journalist, which leads to the Indian Cricket Board ousting them all for four years from cricket. Ravi's girlfriend, Soha (Manisha) dumps him and he also faces his father's death.
But Indian team's cricketing coach (Suresh Oberoi) gives one more chance to the black listed Ravi and his four other banned team mates. Its then an India v/s Pakistan final and what happened in that match forms the rest of the film.
Performance wise, Ravi Kapoor is just okay, he has a long way to go in acting field. Manisha is all right. She does not get much scope but may be in coming films she will do batter. Zakir Hussain and Suresh Oberoi are impressive. Former Indian cricketers Saba Karim and Nikhil Chopra do a good job on screen as commentators.
On the whole, World Cupp 2011 is good film with a good concept but the bad execution and a weak script makes it disappointing.
| Viewer's Review | |
| An average film | |
| by Amit Vashisht (posted on : 19-Dec-09) Rating: (Average) | |
| Overall World Cupp 2011 is just an average film. The film has right intention but it falls flat because of weak script. Positives: 1. Ravi Kapoor and Manisha have good on screen presence. 2. Aadesh Srivastava's music is okay. 3. Technically the film is good. Negatives: 1. The script is very weak. 2. Writing is amateurish. 3. Suffers from bad execution. | |
