Ghoomer (2023)

Anina, a young woman batting prodigy, loses Ghoomer her right hand in an unfortunate accident on the eve of her international cricketing debut. An unsympathetic, failed and frustrated cricketer enters her life, gives her a new dream and transforms her fate by the most innovative training, to make her play for the Indian cricket team again, as a bowler.

The Hindi box office is seeing some major action after the pandemic with multiple big films boasting of stellar stars cast releasing in the past month. First came Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani directed by Karan Johar, which won the hearts of the viewers for representing quintessential Bollywood. Then came the huge clash Ghoomer of Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 and Akshay Kumar’s OMG 2, which clicked with the cine-goers for their nostalgia and educational subject respectively. All three films are currently running successfully at the box office and already another film Ghoomer has released in cinemas today. It is a cricket drama starring Abhishek Bachchan and Saiyami Kher. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has acknowledged the return of the audiences to the theaters and also shared his review of the movie Ghoomer. On Friday, August 18, director Anurag Kashyap took to Instagram and shared some pictures with the cast of Ghoomer including Abhishek Bachchan, Saiyami Kher, Angad Bedi, Shabana Azmi, as well as Darlings director Jasmeet K Reen and actor Vijay Varma. These were taken at the premiere of the film at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. Sharing the photos, Kashyap praised the three previously released films and lauded them for bringing people back to the theaters. He wrote, “It’s been a great month at the movies, people returning to cinemas, filmmakers taking chances, Gadar 2 breaking records and OMG2 and RRKPK holding their own against the Tsunami of it.