This inspires many production companies and directors to invest in new high-quality movies that can rival some of the best film production from Hollywood.

With that said, Hollywood flicks are catching up fast in India, and action movies contribute the most of the box office revenues. However, since the action scene is densely packed in Bollywood with tons of competition, directors and production companies started to explore new branches in the film industry.

This is where Bollywood directors started to make foreign-themed movies that perform very well for the local people. There are new branches to be explored in the film industry in India, such as sports that are not that popular in that part of the world.

This brings us to Basketball movies in India. When you think about sports in India, you immediately think about Cricket.  However, since the country is modernizing and accepting other cultures, this is the perfect time to adopt some other sports and there is no better way than through movies.

In today’s article, we will highlight some of the best basketball movies in Bollywood.

Half Girlfriend

This is a movie based on a book by Chetan Bhagat and it is a fun movie for a Sunday escape. The movie is directed by Mohit Suri and the main actors are Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor. The movie is a love story about a young college basketball player that falls in love with Shraddha Kapoor’s character.

It is a nice romance movie that shows how sports, particularly basketball brings people together.

Time Out

This is another relaxed movie with a lot of confusing teenage plan that takes place on the basketball court. Time Out is released back in 2015, and it is one of the first Indian movies where basketball is the main theme.

This is a teen drama, much like High School Musical, where the main characters are the 14-year-old Gaurav (Chirag Malhotra) and his relationship with his elder brother Mihir (Prenay Pachauri). With that said, Time Out has stilled a movie that tackles serious questions about our society. In the movie, Gaurav finds out that his elder brother likes boys more than girls.

The drama now unveils followed by a ton of teenage confusing stuff.

Dhoom 2

Here we have a movie from 2006, and still one of the classics that you must watch again. The movie is about Ali (Uday Chopra) and his dream of becoming a police officer, which eventually becomes true. He is Jai Dixit’s right-hand man and they are sweeping the streets of India together.

This is not a basketball movie, but it earned an honorable mention on our list thanks to an unforgettable scene. It is a scene where Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan played basketball while it was raining.

The idea of incorporating a long basketball scene in this movie was genius and makes the move that much cooler, especially when love sparks are starting to fly away.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

There is no point in highlighting the connection between basketball and Bollywood without mentioning Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. This is a movie where basketball takes is the main theme and its impact on teenagers in India.

This is another movie where a bunch of college students plays basketball with every free time they get. It is a real 3-point extravaganza and it definitely shows the faded connection between basketball and Hindi movies.

Wanted

No, we are not talking about the Angelina Jolie curving bullet movie Wanted. This is a Bollywood movie that takes a different direction. It is about a man called Bhai and his love for basketball. Salman Khan plays basketball at a local Mumbai court with all of the street thugs from his neighborhood.

It is a crime movie where they want to go after the corruption in the police department. It is a great movie to watch, especially with a sprinkle of basketball. It’s not among the 20 best basketball movies of all time, but it’s still a very entertaining one.

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Just what went wrong with the Teen Patti movie?

First and foremost, it appears to be an unashamed rip-off of the Hollywood movie “21” distributed by Columbia Pictures, starring Kevin Spacey. There are only a handful of casino-themed Bollywood movies out there, although there’s no doubt that Bollywood and Indian culture has rubbed off on the casino industry. There are online casino operators that offer Bollywood-themed live tables, sporting Indian trained dealers and hosts, along with typical interiors and furnishings that one might expect from a casino on the subcontinent. Venkat Subramaniam, played by Amitabh Bachchan who recently appeared in Gulabo Sitabo, takes the role of professor of mathematics. He is something of a reclusive nerd, with a passion for software engineering. He is portrayed in the same light as Spacey’s character in 21, Micky Rosa, a professor employed by the illustrious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Venkat had been sitting on a potentially life-changing mathematical secret for many years and a chance meeting with Perci Trachtenberg, the world’s most respected living mathematician, gives Venkat the chance to explain his theory on using randomness and probability to crack the classic Indian card game of Teen Patti. After proving his theory works at the Teen Patti tables online, he enlists the help of a team of players that can help him prove it offline too. Shantanu Biswas, played by Madhavan who was cast in another average movie, Tanu Weds Manu, is a professor that works under Venkat and is tasked with recruiting three young students to help test his Teen Patti theory. There are shades of Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) in 21 here, with Shantanu Biswas saddled with personal debt and desperate for a way out of his crisis and a new start in life.

It’s a poor replication of Teen Patti the game

Another reason why Teen Patti has fared poorly at the box office is that the movie itself doesn’t provide a fair representation of the classic card game played by millions of households around the world. In the movie, everything is too ‘perfect’ and forced, as if the director is controlling the action rather than the actors. Although director Leena Yadav insists that she and her cast brushed up on their Teen Patti knowledge and techniques before shooting, you’d never have known it. Simply because there were so few nuances of the card game exposed on camera.

Worse still, Yadav admitted months later that although she “can play” the game, she doesn’t play “too well”. It begs the question as to why a director and producer team would consider making a film about a card game they don’t live and breathe. Yadav sought to gloss over this issue by insisting that Teen Patti was a game played only by females living in “idle, rich circles” across the country or “during Diwali”.

Yadav also brushes off comparisons with 21

Shortly after Teen Patti was released on the big screen, Leena Yadav fielded questions from IANS reporters about the glaring comparisons between the storyline in 21 and that of Teen Patti. Yadav said although she didn’t “deny the two films sound similar” she hadn’t “seen 21” herself. It’s difficult to know who to believe. Yadav goes on to state that her script for Teen Patti was “written long before 21 was released” and could not therefore provide any inspiration for her film.

Instead, Yadav doubles down by insisting that her primary inspiration was the MIT’s iconic blackjack team, whose exploits were revealed in the best-seller book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. Yadav said that her film couldn’t be about blackjack simply because “no one in India understands blackjack”. It’s hard to believe that the simple rules of blackjack are a complete mystery to card players on the subcontinent.

Yadav does admit that comparisons can be drawn between 21 and Teen Patti as with “many other contemporary films”, shining a spotlight on the “materialism, greed and acquisitiveness in our times”.

In summary, Teen Patti is a largely forgettable cinematic experience. The mathematical theories that underpinned Venkat’s vision to consistently win at Teen Patti go largely unexplained, leaving viewers thoroughly disconnected from the get-go. Although the film’s soundtrack is composed by Indian duo Salim-Sulaiman, there is a distinct Western vibe to most of the music here, including a couple of club-style remixes. It all seems very out of place. All in all, this disaster is a movie to forget, joining a long line of releases like Dil To Baccha Hai Ji.

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Sanju Official Teaser Watch Online

Sanju stars Ranbir Kapoor as Sanjay Dutt. Sanju is directed by Rajkumar Hirani. Produced by: Vinod Chopra Films and Rajkumar Hirani Films in association with Fox Star Studios.

Sanju Release Date – 29 June 2018

Sanju Movie Cast – Ranbir Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala, Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Dia Mirza, Vicky Kaushal, Jim Sarbh and Boman Irani.

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Student of the Year 2 stars Tiger Shroff with 2 new leading ladies this time being launched by Karan Johar for Dharma Productions.

The first leading lady of Student of the Year 2 is Actor Chunky Pandey’s daughter Ananya Pandey and the second leading debutante is a newcomer Tara Sutaria who was an ex-VJ with Disney India’s TV channel. The story of Student of the Year 2 continues again at the same college – Saint Teresa’s in Dehradun just like in Student of the Year.

Student of the Year 2 Release Date – 10th May 2019.

Student of the Year 2 Cast – Tiger Shroff, Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria.

Student of the Year 2 Music – Vishal & Shekhar, Salim-Sulaiman

Student of the Year 2 is directed by Punit Malhotra who had earlier directed I Hate Love Stories for Dharma Productions. Student of the Year 2 is produced by Karan Johar and Apoorva Mehta for Dharma Productions.

Student of the Year 2 Movie Posters 

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Judwaa 2 Trailer

Judwaa 2 Release Date: 29th September 2017

Judwaa 2 Synopsis

Two brothers (twins) born to a honest businessman are separated at birth when their father exposes a smuggling racket and a king pin. One of the brothers is thought to be dead but only resurfaces stronger after living life on the streets to reunite with his family over a sequence of events and twist of fate. Genetically bound by reflexes both the brother’s lives interlink in strange ways and a comedy of errors. They eventually come together to destroy the smuggling nexus and save their family from a downfall that awaits them.

Judwaa 2 is a family entertainer produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. Co produced by Fox Star Studios, a Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Production, is directed by David Dhawan. It stars Varun Dhawan in a double role alongside Jacqueline and Taapsee. The movie is set to release on Dussehra, 29th September 2017.

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Baadshaho Trailer 

Baadshaho Release Date: 1st September 2017

Produced by Bhushan Kumar Krishan Kumar and Milan Luthria, the official trailer of Baadshaho the upcoming Indian action thriller film written by Rajat Arora, directed by Milan Luthria. It features Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Ileana D’Cruz Vidyut Jammwal and Sanjay Mishra in the lead roles.

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