You know the plot: colonial India, the iconic teen guna lagaan, and one absurd challenge. Win a cricket match against British and pay no tax for three years. Lose and pay thrice the amount.
A biopic about M.S Dhoni would have worked even if it only focused on trophies. The film covers small-town ambition, railway jobs, long waits for selection, everything that mythological figure in cricket he is today.
A kid finds a magical cricket bat that suddenly turns him into a star of Indian Cricket Team. A perfect watch when you want something light after emotional high of celebrating the win.
No one expected India to win the 1983 World Cup under Kapil Dev's captaincy. Least of all the team itself, which makes this real life underdog story even more compelling.
Akshay Kumar, plays Gattu, an immigrant boy in London who dreams to play for the English cricket team, but his father is against this wish that he threatens his son with suicide that let him play for England.
It covers Sachin's childhood upto his last World Cup match against Sri Lanka in 2011, chronicling not only the cricketer that he's been, but also the man that he is and struggles that shaped him.
It flips the classic sports narrative slightly by bringing gender barriers into the story. In this Rani Mukherjee starrer, a woman disguises herself as a man to play in a male cricket team.