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Ghoomer releases on 18th August 2023
Aug 18, 2023
Who does not love a sports movie where the underdog finally achieves victory after toiling hard amidst hardship and uncertainty? No other movie franchise has tapped this more than the Sylvester Stallone-led Rocky franchise. Martin Scorsese dizzyingly tracked the meteoric rise, peak of achievement and the eventual self-destruction of the famous boxer Jake Lamotta through his classic movie Raging Bull.
Bennett Miller’s Moneyball tells the compelling story of an up-and-coming underdog baseball team- a team that was picked by going against the conventional system and using computer statistics. Sarpatta Parambarai (2021), the Tamil movie directed by Pa Ranjith, is another sports movie that depicts the rise of an underdog boxer.
Ghoomer releasing on 18th August 2023, crafts the tale of a cricket player who suffers a grave hand injury and her eventual return to the field with the help of a former cricketer.
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1
In the movie "Karate Kid", Mr. Miyagi's medal is the ........, the highest military decoration awarded by the United States. Fill in the blank.
2
"LIn the movie "Chak De India", Sagarika Ghatge played the role of a hockey player, who is engaged to a cricketer. Interestingly, in her real life , which cricketer did she marry in 2017?
3
In the movie "Moneyball" when Beane is advising his players, he says "When your enemy is making mistakes, don't interrupt 'em". This is paraphrasing advice supposedly delivered by which army commander to his generals during a battle in 1805?
4
One foreign fighter Tyron who played a small role in this movie has now become a new welterweight champion of UFC . Name the movie.
5
Name the movie that had the biggest number of British actors ever to be cast in a single movie in the history of Indian Cinema.
6
After producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff became interested in the script, they offered Sylvester Stallone an unprecedented $350,000 for the rights. He had $106 in the bank and no car, and was trying to sell his dog because he couldn't afford to feed him, but he refused to sell unless they agreed to allow him to star in the film. Name the movie.
7
This the 3rd Vijay film in a row with A.R. Rahman composing the music. The only other composer to have scored such a hattrick in Vijay's career is Deva, who composed for Rasigan and Deva (both released in 1994) and Vishnu (1995). Name the movie.
8
This was Shreyas Talpade's Bollywood debut. Naseeruddin Shah won the National Award for the Best Supporting Actor category for this movie. Name the movie.
9
Cool Runnings is a film that seeks to outline the story behind the historic Jamaican _______ team , which was the first team from Jamaica to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Fill in the blank.
10
In the movie "Invictus", the prison cell that the South African rugby team visited was the actual prison cell on Robben Island where Mandela stayed. Ho many years was the prison sentence?
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