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Rising To The Challenge

Sporting games are just that in most Indian films ---they are hardly given any importance. There are occasional exceptions --- Hip, Hip Hurray, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikkander and Lagaan. Even in Okkadu, Kabbadi looked just an insignificant prop.

So in that sense that director SS Rajamouli has taken a strange gamble by having the abstruse sport of rugby as a canvas to paint an urban, yuppy, youthful, peppy, gritty, in-your-face kind of film. Considering the complexity of the challenge, Chandramouli…