Ranya>> True, the dad’s character in this movie was quite interesting. There are a lot of sports movies where the dad isn’t supportive but comes through in the end — The Greatest Game Ever Played, Herbie: Fully Loaded… But very often, it just feels like a cliche, like the character is asked to be unsupportive just so there is some dramatic conflict. Iqbal started to seem like it was using the same cliche, but managed to keep it real.

That conversation between Anwar and his wife right at the end, where she calls him on his resentment towards his son for his own problems, was quite brilliant. I loved how she was put in a situation where she had to choose between the people she loved, and her immediate response was, “But how did it get to the point where you two were on opposite sides?”

~r

I love how you do the freeze frames; and for this movie, I think I would choose (if I had to choose just one scene) the conversation between the coach (Naseer) & Iqbal’s father. In most movies, usually, the opposing camp is not shown to have any real motives other than just being evil for the sake of being evil. But in this movie, the father’s concerns were real..and he was reacting as a man who has lost his dreams & doesn’t have much hope from the future. Through it all, his love for his son was always present, even though not always expressed.

Real characters; Great movie!