To be frank, what attracted me most to watch this movie, is this poster itself - big smiles, bright colors and the word "Hadippa". I was guessing it meant "Yay" and I believe I am quite close to what it really means. The movie is definitely worth watching once, well maybe not in the expensive movie ride, but atleast on DVD. The movie begins with quite a predictable pattern, but it does pick up pace. The story is of a bubbly village girl wanting to make it big in her village's cricket team and beat Pakistan in the Wagah border match. Acknowledging her skills as both left and/or right hand bats(wo)man, she eagerly attends the match selection round only to be told that "this isn't a Miss India selection". As expected this leads to Veera becoming the cute and reliable Veer Pratap on the cricket team.
Rani Mukherjee is completely adorable, especially in the role of Veer Prathap. Her facial expressions and struggle through the warm up sessions could crack you up. They did crack me up. Shahid Kapur as the captain completely looks and keeps up to his role, he did seem to BE the professional cricketer. Scenes where the IndiBrit boy falls in love with the pretty, fun and knowledgeable Veera, could be boring, but the love of the Punjab food and lassi was welcome. I totally love Punjabi food and couldn't agree more! The movie does capture the spirit of endless love for the game of cricket and as expected ends with a close call to win the match.
Some dialogues written by Aparajitha are just great and Rani might win your heart. Songs are average, easily forgotten, but I love Shahid's groove. Overall, low expectations is the only way to enjoy this flick!
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