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Story: In word sentence, the story is how an underdog Hockey coach coaches his underdog Women’s Hockey team to world cup victory. In a sense, the story does appear not worthy of an entire movie being made on it. But wait, the treatment is so brilliant that all you see is pure excellence.

New Indian Cinema: The best thing about this movie is that there is a not a pint of regressive melodrama. Even, the so called best films of last year, RDB had its share of dramatically forced jingoism and LRMB has had it over-sweet moments. ‘Mani Ratnam’ (one of the best Indian directors) has concentrated on the mass appealing stuff like yuppie romance and family drama before making his point on (with relatively less number of clichés) in themes like terrorism. A few other great directors concentrate on tragedy, scandals, violence and depression in the name of realism. So far, the best of serious Indian movies have always worked on the side track of exaggerated sentiments.