Freaky Ali

Freaky Ali is a very ambitious film. To start with, it makes sports seem easy-peasy for the whole world - and then it makes sports seem easy-peasy for the characters in the film. This is not to say that the film doesn't make a few polite noises about how Nawazuddin Siddiqui trains at golf. But it's not enough. The focus in this movie is instead on the charmed life he leads in the slums, and how it spills out uncontrollably every now and then like sewage onto the calm stretches of green.

For a film that's deliberately taking on a subject as unfamiliar as golf, and playing on the ....