Doosra
2019, 90 minutes
Doosra is a story of how cricket changed India, seen through the eyes of a young girl.
Set between the last decade of the previous millennium and the turn of this, the film weaves together two stories of courage and identity. One, well-known and played out under the harsh glare of the national spotlight by a controversial cricket captain, Saurav Ganguly, and his tough-as-nails team. The other, deeply private in the orthodox living room of a small town in India, where a brave young girl, Tara Agarwal, takes on severely-defined social taboos as she comes to terms with her own mind and body. Both stories have their principal characters fighting the demons of tradition, classism and orthodoxy. What unites the stories is a single event: when Captain Sourav Ganguly removes his shirt in front of the cameras while celebrating on the legendary balcony at Lords in the aftermath of India's seminal victory in 2002. A sporting victory is suddenly elevated into an iconic social statement of a nation shedding its inferiority complex to assert its identity as equals on the world stage.
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