Movie: Azhar
Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai, Nargis Fakhri, Lara Dutta, Kunal Roy Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Shernaz Patel
Directed by: Tony D’Souza
What It’s about:
Everyone loves a sporting hero – the guy who comes from nowhere and wins hearts of the nation. It doesn’t happen too often. What happens even lesser is when the very fans who put him on the pedestal, pull him down because they find him unworthy of the love and adulation. Azhar is the story of a fallen hero’s fight for his lost dignity. From a lower middle-class background in Hyderabad, Mohammed Azharuddin( Emraan) rises to become one of India’s most successful captains in the world of cricket. But the journey is speckled with controversies and scandals galore. On the personal front, he makes headlines when he romances a film heroine Sangeeta( Nargis) who he eventually marries after leaving his first wife Naureen( Prachi) . On the career front, he is banned from playing cricket after being accused of match fixing. The film tracks Azhar’s journey as he combats his inner battles with a clear mission – to have his name cleared.