Though the movie is called Kaun Pravin Tambe?, it’s making sure we all know, and appreciate, cricketer Pravin Tambe. When this writer watched it, days before turning 40, she realised that age was just a number. It’s what the new cricket biopic had hoped to do, says its star Shreyas Talpade, whose last big outing was Golmaal Again in 2017. Talpade plays the man in the centre of it all, Pravin Tambe. He thinks the movie is less about cricket, and more about the spirit of the sport and not giving up. 

Tambe, who after a frustrating but inspiring career, is now consulting with KKR for the 2022 IPL season, has a unique claim to fame—he was the oldest IPL debutant ever for Rajasthan Royals in 2013, and played an IPL match without ever playing professional cricket. The movie, which is about the four decades before he achieved his dream, is a masterclass in how to keep going to pursue a dream, even if having to take up menial jobs along the way, fend off judgment, and being collateral damage to the system.