Bollywood, to serve the flavor of entertainment in its recipes (movies), oftentimes misses the vital ingredients. Can I get your agreement on this point? The recent release “Gold” movie can be an appropriate and perfect example. This time the Gold movie was unable to satiate us, because it wasn’t real at all.
Yes! The biopic of an Indian legend who got the free India the first Olympic gold medal and waved the Indian flag on the British soil doesn’t justify the purpose. Instead, it is the same traditional Bollywood period drama film with a few biopic elements. The World of Movies addresses the need of all its readers and hence we take you towards an audi of our cinema theater which plays the real story behind the “GOLD”.
Let’s take the way!
Fact 1: Kishan Lal was the man, who captained the Indian Hockey Team in 1948. Under his leadership, the team bagged its first gold medal for Independent India. For the record, earlier in British colonial era, United India already had won medals at Olympics.
Fact 2: Kishan Lal was only a hockey player. As shown in the movie, he wasn’t a part of any selection committee.
Do check out our review of Gold Movie here!
Fact 3: Despite acing the game, the captain never believed in portraying himself as a hero by making the final goal, instead he often passed the ball to the inside forwards or the center forward to do the finishing touch.
Fact 4: He was born and brought up in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh in 1917. Do update your information of him being born in Bengal.
Fact 5: He was associated with the game for 28 years as a player. Later, he took retirement from competitive Hockey and remained connected with the game as a coach and commentator.
Fact 6: He was honored by the then President of India, Dr. Sarvapalli Radha Krishnan with the prestigious Padma Shri Award.
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