It is to the credit of the writers that every character in the film has been created with much care. The film could remind you of the 2005 Bollywood film Iqbal for its feel?good factor, though the similarities in the story end there. But the gripping second half leaves you wanting more. Though the film begins well, somewhere along the line things get a bit slow?paced. The story has Sachin Tendulkar's cricketing journey as a parallel track and the fact that almost everyone in India loves the master?blaster, who retired from cricket last year, works big time. Gopi Sundar scores big time, especially with the terrific song Olanjalikkuruvi? rendered amazingly well by the legendary singers, P Jayachandran and Vani Jayaram. It is the inherent honesty with which the film unveils that makes Abrid Shine's story and the script (co?written by Bipin Chandran) genuinely appealing, though the writing is far from being called brilliant.
Those muddy fields where deadly bouncers were slammed to the fence, those days of fooling around with friends, being scolded by parents for being late and so on, well, it's all there to see. For the rest of the world too, many of the scenes could be familiar in some way or the other. Now, this is one story that will easily send middle?aged men on a nostalgic journey. He was a good student until then but after that cricket took away all his time and he lost it all. That was in 1983, when the underdogs, India, defeated the mighty West Indies to lift the cricket world cup at Lords. Rameshan (Nivin Pauly) was hooked on to the magic of cricket when he was barely ten years old. Debutant director Abrid Shine's 1983 is a tribute to a magician on the cricket pitch named Sachin Tendulkar and the film is truly a likeable one. On the whole it is an entertaining family movie filled with Indian pride.Though cricket is regarded as a religion in India, not many films have been made with the sport as the main theme. For all generations, it's a nostalgic revisit to those childhood memories, where you had played cricket with your friends, a tennis ball, wickets of stick, and a bat carved from leaf stalk. The movie too talks the passion for cricket among some people in a remote village in Kerala, starting from the year 1983, where India won their first World Cup, till the present.
Abrid Shine's directorial venture 1983, with Nivin Pauly in the lead, is the first movie in Malayalam to talk about cricket, a passion for Indians more than just being a game. COMING TO DETROIT, MICHIGAN: Super hit malayalam movie "1983"! Starts on February 28th - Stay tuned for timings.
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