Singeers :Sonu Nigam Yuvan Shankar Raja Swanand Kirkire Vishal Bharadwaj Sunidhi Chauhan Blaaze.
Lyrics: Prashant Ingole, Nitin Raikwar, Gulzar, Swananda Kirkire, Blaze, Jeetendra Joshi.Director of Photography: P S Vinod
Music Director: Shailendra Barve, Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Swananda Kirkire, Vishal Bharadwaj, Blaze .
Banner: Makefilms Pvt Ltd, I Indian Films, Studio 18
Writer,
Producer
&
Director: Chandan Arora
Striker is a Hindi action-drama film written, directed and produced by Chandan Arora.
‘Striker’ is another Bollywood tale of an innocent man being driven into the puddle of money-making.The film is based on true-life accounts.Strykar is the story of a carrom player who grows up on the fringes of a criminal existence but does not succumb to it.
Sidharth starrer Strikar is set in a Bombay (now Mumbai) in the mid ’80s,In Striker Sidharth plays a role named Suryakant Sarang who born into a poor family and grows up with minimum luxuries. Suriya couldn’t attend school because of his poor health – that is when his elder brother introduces him to carrom. Surya wins the Junior Carrom Championship at the age of 12 but is not enough to him on fire for the sport burning through adolescence.
Hopes for a job in Dubai replace the passion for carrom, as Suriya grows into a young man. Overseas employment agency dupes Suriya loses all his hard earned money he had saved for going to Dubai. But life has ways of testing even the strong. Striker is the story of a friendship, life in the city of dreams in the 80’s, a story of a game that is most common but non-existent. Striker storyline of a Carrom player who grows up on the fringes of a criminal existence but does not succumb to it Surya reaches Mumbai after his out of town trip and finds himself in an environment of communal riot. Surya is stopped by the police official, Faroukh (Anupam Kher). He gets trapped in the course of movie and eventually loses all the money that he had collected to go to Dubai. It is at this stage that he is re-introduced to carom but this time it is not just a game. He plays carom for gambling and stands face to face with the dreadful gangster, Jaleel (Aditya Pancholi) whom he hates since his childhood. He had always tried to keep away from Jaleel and his wickedness but ultimately finds himself standing in front of him.
The movie is made with the best of intentions and with a sensible theme. Dialogues are crisp and powerful. Like any other Bollywood movie, ‘Striker’ too has a love plot which never finds scope to grow fully. Noorie (Nicolette Bird), the love life of Surya gives a fresh impact to the audience. Friendship shared between Surya and Zaid (Ankur Vikal) is commendable and forms one of the main veins of the story.
Producer-director Chandan Arora makes a fruitful attempt in story
telling technique and manages to keep the audience watching. However, at times the plot weakens and tends to confuse the audience with the introduction of sub-plots. Songs are pleasant to ear and contributes to the progress of the movie.Siddharth poses a natural acting and shows his capability to shoulder a Bollywood movie on his shoulder. His work is highly appreciable and succeeds in maintaining the ‘Rang De Basanti’ magic. Nicolette Bird is pretty but finds no chance to show her acting skill. Anupam Kher and Aditya Pancholi show themselves to be experienced actors. Ankur Vikal, Anup Soni, Seema Biswas and Padmapriya suit their role perfectly.
The movie fails to leave an unforgettable impact and the movie will be acceptable only to limited audience, leave alone the weak hearts.
Rating : **
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