Hattrick Film Review

Banner: UTV Motion Pictures

Producer: Ronnie Screwvala

Director: Milan Luthria

Cast: Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Danny Denzongpa, Kunal Kapoor and Rimi Sen

Rating: 1.5/5

Cricket and Bollywood are what drives the country and the recent marriage of these two passions delivered a Hattrick. However, one has seen better cricket themed films like Lagaan, Iqbal and even yesteryears films like Kumar Gaurav starrer All Rounder and Aamir Khan starrer Awwal Number can be rated above UTV Motion Pictures' Hattrick directed by Milan Luthria.

Three parallel un-related stories patched into one movie revolving around the theme of the on-going Cricket World Cup is what one can sum up Hattrick as.

The film fails at the very basic level of the script, which is tied around the theme of cricket. A better story, screenplay and dialogue by Rajat Arora could have worked wonders for this movie.

Using the tournament as a backdrop, Hattrick takes us into the lives of Doctor Satyajeet (Nana Patekar) and David Abraham (Danny Denzongpa); Sarbjeet Singh (Kunal Kapoor) and Kashmira (Rimi Sen) along with Hemu Patel (Paresh Rawal).

Doctor Satyajeet is a no-nonsense doc, who never smiles. He doesn't even believe in beating around the bush when it comes to telling his patients the truth about their medical condition and is very outright about it. He is also uptight in his personal relationships with his wife and son. Moreover, he detests cricket. Enter David Abraham, an ex-cricketer, who has been admitted to the hospital with a failed kidney. This track is probably the better one amongst the three owing to Patekar and Denzongpa's performances, which kept viewer interest alive in the movie. This particular plot could have been the focal point of the film and could have been developed further instead of having three un-related tracks.

Patekar delivers with élan and is brilliant as the...