Iqbal (DVD)

Iqbal was released in the year 2005. This movie is about a Deaf & Dumb boy name Iqbal and whose dream is play cricket & play in Indian Cricket team. The movie is directed by Nagesh Kukunoor who has earlier made movie like Hyderabad Bluez, 3 Deewaraien etc...all these movies were good but Iqbal is the biggest hit from him. Iqbal is produced by Subhash Ghai who is a big filmaker in Indian Cinema. Iqbal's character is played by Shreyas Talpade, this was his first bollywood movie, but he had a good name in Marathi film industry. But he did a very good job in his first Hindi movie, and also won all the awards for the newcomer of the year. Cast ...  Read the complete review

When I bungled my recording of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Channel 4 again sticking their slick HBO drama on in the middle of the night, I was greeted with the worse case scenario of recording the wrong channel—an Indian film! Iqbal, the tale of a deaf mute peasant boy who dreams of playing cricket for India, would be my evening entertainment. As a huge cricket fan I thought why not. How bad can it be? As long as the fielders dot start dancing with bells I knew I could get through it. Bollywood gets a bad rap in the United Kingdom, even though their films feature regularly in the billboard charts here. In fact the Indian film industry is bigger than the ...  Read the complete review