Rating: **
Movie Tagline: "PLAY THE GAME... DON'T PLAY WITH THE GAME..."
Director Sanjay Surkar's Stand By is the sport drama movie.
Rahul Narvekar and Shekhar Verma are two football player of Maharastra state football team. Rahul's father is a bank employee, and was a football player. Shekhar's father was a industries and have the connection with political power.
Maharastra team won the interstate football matches. During the selection of national team for playing internationally Rahul is selected as captain of team, but Shekhar end-up as stand by player only. Because of this, differences between two starts to increasing, it was very difficult for Shekhar to accept the situation. Then, his family starts to pressurize selection committee to select Shekhar.
Then what happens tells the movie...
Will Rahul play for Indian football team... or selection politics will come in his way...
Film is very average. It starts as a promising movie, but end up into a very average movie. It is the mistake of either the story/screenplay or direction, that at one time it is a sport movie and other time it is movie based on selection politics. Director does not able to focus on any of two aspects.
When movie warms up on a football sport and matches, it suddenly changes into a movie based on selection politics. When there is so many good sport movies released in recent past, this one failed to impress.
What good in movie is the challenges which a football player or player of any other game faces in India. While what bad in this movie is its loose focus.
It might be liked by fan of football in India.
Do not compare this movie with other Hindi sport movies like Lagan, Chak De India, Patiala House, Goal etc otherwise you will end up as disappointed.
Reviewer Verdict: It is better to avoid movie if you are not fan of sport movies and not very willing to see selection politics issue.
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