Hoop Reels 3

The prominent Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Basketball scenes make you wonder if the movie should have been called ‘Kuch Hoops Hota Hai’ instead? It’s 1998, and there are only two types of basketball fans in India. Those who know everything about Michael Jordan. And those who know everything about Shah Rukh Khan. It’s 1998. Michael […]

I watched Bollywood hit ‘Half Girlfriend’ so you won’t have to Warning: Spoilers ahead. Less than half an hour into the Mohit Suri directed film Half Girlfriend – based on popular novel by Chetan Bhagat – the two lead characters Madhav Jha (Arjun Kapoor) and Riya Somani (Shraddha Kapoor) take on the court in a […]

Actor Dhairya Karwa, of Uri fame, is playing the role of cricketer Ravi Shastri in the eponymous 1983 World Cup biopic. He will next be seen paired opposite Deepika Padukone in Gehraiyaan.  But before he became an actor, Dhairya Karwa was an avid basketball player, captaining the Uttarakhand State team in the Junior National Basketball Championship, and representing […]