The Goal (film)

The Goal
Directed by Gul Bahar Singh
Written by Prafulla Roy
Screenplay by Partha Banerjee
Subir Mukherjee
Story by Prafulla Roy
Starring Irrfan Khan
Music by Chandan Roy Chaudhury
Cinematography Barun Raha
Edited by Ujjal Nandy
Production
company
Release date
 30 December 1999
Running time
 1 hour 30 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

The Goal is a award winning Hindi feature film based on the short story written by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, produced by Children's Film Society, India and directed by Gul Bahar Singh starring Irrfan Khan as a coach. The film has won several national and international awards.[1][2][3]

Plot

The film is about a child Manu (Tapas Dhali) who belongs to a poor family and loves to play football but no one accept him to play in their team because of his family background however Anupam a football coach (Irrfan Khan) finds Manu talented and decides to coach him. After spending some time coaching Manu, The coach Anupam thinks that Manu is eligible and decides to play him in a semifinal match for his club but other players and their parents declined to play with Manu because his father is a thief and he belongs to a lower caste. Anupam finds himself helpless and doesn't want such a talent to die so he puts Manu in rival team to play against his own club.[4]

Cast

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals.
  2. ↑ "Bengali film on football after 3 decades". Indian Express.
  3. ↑ "Children's film festival begins in Kottayam". The Hindu.
  4. ↑ "Children's films in India either fall into the rut of thinly disguised pedagogy or absurd, amateurish nonsense". Rediff.
  5. ↑ "The Indian Entry "The Goal" directed by Gul Bahar Singh and produced by Children's Film Society of India has won Special International Jury's Prize in the 11th Cairo International Film Festival for Children". pib.nic.in.

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