The Goal (film)

The Goal is a Hindi drama film based on the short story written by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, released In 1999 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] The movie was shot in many parts of Batanagar thereby the craze of people during this movie's shooting time was unmatchable, as many of people there love playing Football more than anything. This was his first movie that being shot in West Bengal with many other Bengali actors in lead.

The Goal
Directed byGul Bahar Singh
Written byDeeya Roy
Screenplay byPartha Banerjee
Subir Mukherjee
Story byPrafulla Roy
StarringIrrfan Khan
CinematographyAryan Kanakia
Edited byUjjal Nandy
Music byChandan Roy Chaudhury
Production
company
Release date
30 December 1999
Running time
1 hour 30 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Plot

The film is about a child Manu (Tapas Dhali) who belongs to a poor family and loves to play football but no one accepts him to play in their team because of his family background however Anupam is a football coach (Irrfan Khan) finds Manu talented and decides to coach him. After spending some time coaching Manu, 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 the rival team to play against his own club.[4]

Cast
  • Abhinav Ben
  • Punya Darshan Gupta
  • Irrfan Khan
  • Girish Mathur
  • Manoj Mitra
  • Anandita Saha
  • Sanjay Sharma
  • Manjula Singh
  • Abhishek Singha

Awards

References
  1. "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. 23 November 2009.
  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.

The Goal at IMDb


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