Given below is a movie review in jumbled parts. |
Arrange those parts between A and B to give the correct sequence of the review. |
A: 'The Player-Avi Singh' is a terrifically entertaining sports saga, but is it a biopic, a "biographical picture"? |
P: Like many films about the famous. The Player-Avi Singh is a paradox. Without the cricketer's name, you would not have a "biopic". You'd just have the rags-to-riches story of some cricketer from a non descriptive town of India. |
A bookstore would file the novelisation of the screenplay under "Fiction: Underdog". And yet, even with the player's name attached to the film, we get only the rousing high points of his career. There's not a whiff of even the most minor of infractions ? say, maintaining a slow over rate. |
Q: We don't make good biopics in our country. For, we have to be very, very careful when it comes to what could be construed as defamation. A filmmaker wants a hit, not a lawsuit. |
R: This isn't to say that a biopic has to be com- prehensive, giving us Avi's first walk, or the first words as he began to talk. But is it too much to expect that we get at least a sense of the man Avi was when he was not thinking about or playing cricket? |
S: Why not hint at this fact found on Wikipedia ? that his idols, as a child, were Amitabh Bachchan and Lata Mangeshkar. Also from |
Wikipedia: "But he also had a mischievous side to his personality. Once, while staying at the company quarters, Avi and a couple of his friends covered themselves in white bed-sheets and walked around in the complex late in the night. The night guards were fooled into believing that there were ghosts moving around in the complex." Could a few fours and sixes not have been sacrificed to give us this Avi? |
B: Maybe biopics work best when they are about people we don't know very well. Maybe that is why our better biopics ? Shahid, Paan Singh Tomar ? are about people who lived far away from the limelight. Everything, thus, is a discovery. Every fact, an untold story. |
A) PRSQ,
B) RQSP
C) RSPQ
D) PQSR
E) None of these
Correct Answer: B
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