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Please... The Dressing Room Movie Review
Sometimes good ideas don't translate into good movies.
Silence Please... The Dressing Room fits this statement
to the T.
A goodwill cricket match has been organized between
India and Pakistan in Srinagar. However, a terrorist
organization issues a threat to blow up the stadium
if the match takes place. But once the countdown begins
for the keenly anticipated match, cracks begin to develop
within the Indian cricket team. A few cricketers suspect
the captain (Salil Ankola) of indulging in match fixing.
Even the new entrant, Siddharth (Alekh Sangal), starts
believing that the coach (Tom Alter) and the captain
are hand-in-glove. The goodwill match does take place.
How the cops nab the terrorists while the match is in
progress forms the climax of the film. Silence Please...
The Dressing Room depicts a One Day International cricket
match between India and Pakistan. Coming at the right
time the film could've successfully depicted the 'games'
within the game, played in the dressing room.
Talking of on-screen
performances, Salil Ankola does reasonably well. Tom
Alter is efficient. Sonali Kulkarni is wasted in an
insignificant role. Arif Zakaria is alright. Newcomer
Alekh Sangal gets ample scope and he does quite well.
Director Sanjay Srinivas has handled a few sequences
well, but he seems confused whether to make a film on
cricket or make a typical masala film that not only
focuses on cricket, but also terrorism, songs, light
moments et al. In fact, even the terrorism angle in
the film looks childish. Jawahar Wattal's music is a
drawback, partly because the songs show up at all the
wrong places. In fact, it would've been a better idea
to make a songless film. Cinematography (Sejal Shah)
is inconsistent. The background score is effective.
The title of the film is another hitch. It has no relevance
with the story of the film. Even if it does
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