Show: Inside Edge
Season: 2
Genre: Sports Drama
Verdict: A binge worthy show for cricket historians. A platter of drama for those who don’t follow the sport.

Bhaisaab.

A term that resonates command and order. Everybody has that one Bhaisaab in their lives whom they just don’t want to mess with. Mostly for reasons comical. But, in the universe of Inside Edge, Bhaisaab is everything the word was designed to be.

Read on. I’ll tell you everything and spoil nothing.

The narrative of this season is placed in the modern world. Cricket has gone completely digital. Vikrant Dhawan has gone missing. Arvind Vashisht has moved on from the game and Zarina Malik is now a megastar on a power trip.

This season seams into the honour of the game right from the word go. Oppressed journalists, upstart domestic cricketers, politicians and cheerleading staff get engulfed by the diatribe. The show navigates through the auction process and scores a quick single every time it flicks out politics, entertainment and moral fabric of the country. Now here’s the misfield. This could’ve panned across episodes as subtext rather than being story arcs.

Elaborate inclusion of every facet that affects the game makes the watch tad bit laborious. Every episode could’ve been cut a percent or two shorter on the edit table. Yet, sufficient exclamation points in every episode keep interest hooked on.

Things have changed for Mumbai Mavericks. Vayu Raghavan, the bad boy of cricket turned dark horse, is now the team’s captain. He has found a younger sibling in Prashant Kanaujia. The latter needs a shoulder. Devender keeps him up all night dressed as a ghetto of his past. The cricketing idols are now wounded, vulnerable and on self-destruct mode. Arvind is fighting a lonely battle against the absconded killers of his dear friend Niranjan Suri. Relationships have taken a bullet this time. The chunk of this season revolves around relationships and bonds you can bid crores on.

Let’s talk about the on-field auction. Erm, I mean action.

Bhaisaab wants the game to evolve.

The Mavericks have a new co-owner and a brand new title sponsor. Vayu is the unprepared, temperamentally finicky captain who’s high on guts and low on emotional consideration. His team has witnessed an influx of new overseas and domestic players. Everything is decked up for a blistering second season of the PPL, except Vayu’s form. A heartthrob of the nation and future of the sport, Vayu isn’t the same dude who scored a replica of Sachin’s 53* against Delhi Sultans. He’s on the wrong foot this time around.

Arvind isn’t his skipper anymore. Handa has the murder mystery half volley thrown at Arvind in barter of leading Haryana Hurricanes. Rohini is dangling between her bloodline and blood rush for the game. Her stats aren’t being adhered to, mostly. Prashant is a relic of his own smashing debut. No pace, no length. Just inhibitions. The sport has been plagued by life. And life has been suppressed by the sport.

Demons of the game have grown exponentially, this season. PPL isn’t a celebrity tournament anymore. It interweaves ministries, magnates and messiahs in the same mix. Cricketers are not just pawns, they are weapons now. Intoxicated by power, turnabout is their fairplay in the Power Play League.

Bhaisaab wants to inspire the youth to be the next Vayu Raghavan or Arvind Vashisht. He doesn’t want Test Cricket to die. He wants T20 to draw more eyes in. He has his own hurdles in this vigil to make cricket a global sport. In search of a heir apparent, he makes decisions aplenty which create new enemies.But, Bhaisaab always has a butterfly ball up his alley. Well almost.

The tilt of the tournament has shifted this year. Ayesha Dewan has quit business relations with Handa to have her own team. Bangalore.

The scene is set. Mumbai and Haryana are short of key players and traded volatile players. PPL has grown bigger than just being an entertainment. Too big to contain in this country.

This smells similar. Like someone we know. A setup for a setup. It’s all happening. The 7th PPL league has declared open season. And, in a country far far away, an outlaw is watching.

Bhaisaab began a battle. He’s been traded back a war.

Inside Edge was, for me, was underwhelming because it was trying to be a Cricket whistle-blower. This season differs in soul. It begins as a cricket espionage but melts into a drama about problems. Everyone has problems, prominent or obscure. This season is high on sensitivity and that’s where the makers go down the ground and loft it for a maximum.

It’s almost improbable to make a cricket show in this country. A sport where athletes are either Rockstars or Gods, you’ll be rubbing someone the wrong way along your process of execution. Inside Edge uses that brutality of pace and nudges the discrepancies across the fence. This edition vouches the love for this game. Two teams, one evening of confrontation and pure cricket.

The dramatic tonality of the show, even though necessary, will still be open to divided opinions. The show is a magnum opus that’ll be questioned for the absence of realism. It is a cinematic take on the cancerous elements of cricket which could’ve been fit for an erstwhile documentary. But, this comes from a school of film making that calls a spade a spade without meddling much with the grammar and technique. A look at the creator of this franchise, Karan Anshuman’s filmography gives us a summary of the broader scorecard.

He has made films which had an opinion and lots of condiments to package around it. Anshuman and co-directors Gurmeet Singh and Aakash Bhatiaare well aware of the feeble tolerance levels of people and his awareness reflects glaringly in a poised conversation between mortal enemies Prashant and Devender.

The men of the series are production designers Rajiv Punjabi and Vintee Bansal. The cricketing aesthetics are on point. Recreated matches have been shot and edited to visual precision by Vivek Shah and Manan Ashwin Mehta, Farooq Hundekar respectively. It was an Easter egg delight to watch Angad Bedi alias Arvind bowl nifty flighters alike his legendary father Bishen Singh Bedi. What saves the long, absorbing watch is the concise sound design and score by Vivek Sachidanandand John Stewart Eduri. Inside Edge 2 is a compelling watch for the accurate presentation and vibe of the game. Writers Niren Bhatt, Ameya Sarda, Saurav Dey, Mansi Bohra and Neeraj Udhwani have got the game right, first and good amount of drama on board for the chase.

As a slow burning, unfolding franchise, Inside Edge has given more breathing space to character development. Tanuj Virwani has been slated to transform into the Cyclone Vayu he’s been touted as, in the universe. Vivek Oberoi’s overboard performance last season has been substituted with a controlled demeanour and character arc. Flora Saini is being prepped for a substantial role, I presume.

Sapna Pabbi and Ameer Bashir serve as the cogs of emotional wrench in the story. I liked how they relayed emotions in grey characters. A vulnerable father cum a Cricket overlord is a nice foil for an actor of his prowess. But, my man of the match of Inside Edge 2 is Amit Sial. The clown prince of cliffhangers from season 1 has minimal work on and off-field. But, he spins it out of the park with the least he’s been given to do in this season. My sole disappointment was how Siddhant Chaturvedi’s arc was handled. Looked really rushed and barren to me. His character is the soft target for an otherwise inclusive story. It was underwhelming because his arc mattered.

Wrapped as a blockhold delivery, Inside Edge 2 is actually a slower one that beats the evils with hope and admiration for the game. The overarching theme of the show is an ode to every cricket lover. Like the game, life is quite like the 2001 Test at Eden Gardens. There will be a huge total stacked against one. Follow-on will be imposed. Possibilities will reflect a disappointing washout. But, the game will bounce back.

There will be people like Bhaisaab throwing a curve ball every once in a while. The game will be put on backfoot. And, that’s where the magic will erupt.

As Handa said in season one, “Kabhi Kabhi humara ghamand hi humara raksha kavach bam jaata hai.”

Flawed yet ferocious, Inside Edge 2 is a watch for anyone who has grown up on the game that can never be killed.

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Punjabis and Gujaratis are completely opposite to each other. There is not one differentiation but many and if we start counting them now, the list will still never end.

Where Gujaratis are pure vegetarian, Punjabis cannot live without chicken. Gujarat is a dry state for a reason whereas Punjabis cannot require peggs of whiskey, every week!

The idea of Punjabis and Gujaratis together sounds like a disastrous one. These two in one place will give birth to thousands of contradictions, without any doubt.

But what if you are one of these and fall in love with the other one? Suppose you are a girl who is born and brought up in Gujarat and your prince charming happens to be a full-fledged Punjabi Munda? You will not notice much during the relationship phase but once you are in the family, your whole life will change!

Here’s Kinjal who fell in love with Raman and her whole life has changed after she got married. Her in-laws not only made her feel home since the first day of her wedding but also showered a lot of care and concern.

She is taken aback by the amount of galis being declaimed in one family but she is overwhelmed with the respect that she gets, which is way more than the new parents had given to their own son. Watch the video here:-

That’s Punjabis! Love drools out of them the same amount of Ghee on Parathas!

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There is no denying the fact that Internet is a great place to have some fun and nowadays the Indian social media users are enjoying a viral video of a Pakistani comedian Moin Akhter.

This video is from a chat show Loose Talk in which Moin is seen dressed up as a Harmonium Wale Chacha while the interviewer of the show is Anwar Maqsood. For a couple of weeks now, this video has been going viral and memes are also being made on Moin’s character who has been titled as Gussail Chacha. His punchline, “Abbey Saale, Maaf Kijiyega.. Gusse Me Thoda Idhar Udhar Nikal Jaata Hun” is being loved by audiences a lot.

Here’s one video of Harmonium Chacha:

Click here to watch this video directly on YouTube

Let us tell you a little about Moin Akhter aka Gussail Chacha….

1. Moin Akhter’s birthplace is Karachi and he was born in the year 1950. Sadly, he departed from the world in 2011 at the age of 60 after entertaining Pakistan and his fans across the borders for more than 40 years.

2. Other than being a comedian, he was also a writer, actor, movie producer-director, TV anchor and singer.

3. He started acting at the young age of 13 and he was so good in mimicry that he used to mimic even the Hollywood actors and political personalities.

4. He became famous after playing the character of female TV artist Rosy in a drama. It was inspired from the character of Dustin Hoffman which he portrayed in the Hollywood movie “Tootsie”.

5. The talk show Loose Talk started in 1995 and in more than 400 episodes, Moin appeared as various characters. Anwar Maqsood not only took interviews but he was also the writer of the show.

6. Moin had an Indian connection as well. His father Muhammad Ibrahim Mehboob was basically from Muradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, but he shifted to Pakistan during partition.

7. Moin Akhter was one of those comedians who never used vulgar jokes to make the audiences laugh. He was also known for taking a dig at the Pakistani politics, government and politicians in a humorous way.

8. He was a learned man as he was well-versed in many languages – Urdu, English, Gujarati, Bengali, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi and Memoni.

9. Moin had performed with many Indian artists such as Lata Mangeshkar, Madhuri Dixit, Dilip Kumar and others.

10. He also hosted the show Kya Aap Banaingay Crorepati?, the Pakistani version of game show Who wants to be a Millionaire?

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The three match T20 series which is being played between India and West Indies got a perfect start as more than 400 runs were scored in a T20 match. Both the teams performed great in the match which was played in Hyderabad and what makes it more special is that Virat Kohli scored his T20s best.

Virat remained unbeaten at 94 runs in 50 balls and he played a very important role in his team’s win. The West Indian team batted brilliantly to put a huge total of 207 runs on the board; the highest scorer for the visitors was Shimron Hetmyer who scored 56 runs.

The Indian skipper was having problems in the beginning and was not able to connect the ball properly with his bat but after a couple of overs, he started playing his strokes, leaving West Indian bowlers in a confused state.

After the dismissal of KL Rahul (62), the team came under pressure but Virat played beautifully and his fans went crazy over his superb performance. Virat’s innings includes six boundaries and the same number of sixers as well. In addition, he was also awarded the Man of the Match award.

After the match, many former cricketers took to Twitter to hail the Indian skipper but the tweet that was made by former West Indian cricketer Sir Vivian Richards was quite special for Virat as he is a great fan of him.

Sir Vivian Richards tweeted, “Amazing. Just amazing, @imVkohli”

Amazing. Just amazing, @imVkohli

— Sir Vivian Richards (@ivivianrichards) December 6, 2019

The Indian skipper also replied immediately, “Thanks big BOSS. Coming from you means a lot ”

Thanks big BOSS. Coming from you means a lot

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) December 7, 2019

We are eagerly waiting for the second T20 match. What about you?

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Akshay Kumar is undoubtedly one of the biggest superstars of Bollywood and it won’t be wrong to say that over the years, he has become the success mantra for any producer or director as his flicks perform superbly at the box-office.

Apart from being an excellent actor who has given flawless performance in many superhit movies, he is also indulged in charity works and does a lot for the country.

Akshay has a huge fan following and is very much praised on social media for his good work; nevertheless, his patriotism is always questioned and the reason is his Canadian citizenship. Yes, the “Gold” star is always targeted for the same on social media but he chose to remain silent on the matter so far.

However recently when he was questioned about it at an event, he finally spoke up and narrated the story behind his citizenship of Canada.

As per Khiladi Kumar, he gave 14 flops back to back at one point of time and thought that it was the end of his Bollywood career and that he would not be given work in India subsequent to such a bad record.

Even his friend asked him to make way to Canada for working with him and it was then that he applied for the citizenship. But luck worked in his favour and his 15^th movie was hit and the actor didn’t think of changing his passport.

Akshay Kumar says that he has now applied for the Indian passport as he is not willing to give people an opportunity of questioning his patriotism. According to the “Rustom” actor, he is an Indian and gets hurt when he is asked to prove his love for India all the time. His wife and kids are Indians, he pays taxes in India and lives his life in this country.

Akshay is currently busy in the promotional activities of his next flick “Good Newwz” in which he will share the screen with Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kiara Advani and Diljit Dosanjh. The trailer of the flick received good response from audiences and the movie will hit the theatres on 27^th December this year.

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This Friday was exciting for movie buffs as two much awaited movies hit the theatres and it must have been a tough choice for viewers to select which one they should watch first. We are talking about “Panipat” which starred Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Sanjay Dutt and “Pati, Patni Aur Woh” featuring Kartik Aaryan, Ananya Panday, Bhumi Pednekar and Aparshakti Khurana in important roles.

Viewers had great expectations from “Panipat” but unfortunately, it could not earn a good amount and minted only Rs 4.12 crore on its opening day.

Here’s what trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted:

#Panipat records low numbers on Day 1… Reports [word of mouth] are positive and its biz, hopefully, should see a turnaround on Day 2 and 3… Fri ₹ 4.12 cr [2395 screens]. #India biz… Showcasing at multiplexes affected due to excessive run time [close to 3 hours].

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 7, 2019

Talking about the first day collections of “Pati, Patni Aur Woh”, the flick collected Rs 9.10 crore and became the highest opener of Kartik Aaryan.

Taran Adarsh wrote:

#PatiPatniAurWoh is excellent on Day 1… This, despite competing with another biggie [#Panipat], which resulted in screens/shows getting divided… Expect solid growth on Day 2 and 3… Emerges #KartikAaryan’s biggest opener… Fri ₹ 9.10 cr. #India biz.

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 7, 2019

#KartikAaryan versus #KartikAaryan… *Day 1* biz…
2019: #PatiPatniAurWoh ₹ 9.10 cr
2019: #LukaChuppi ₹ 8.01 cr
2015: #PyaarKaPunchnama2 ₹ 6.80 cr
2018: #SonuKeTituKiSweety ₹ 6.42 cr
2011: #PyaarKaPunchnama – which shot Kartik to fame – had collected ₹ 92 lakhs on Day 1.

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 7, 2019

Ashutosh Gowarikar’s “Panipat” is based on the third battle of Panipat fought on 14^th January, 1761, between fierce Afghani invaders led by Ahmad Shah Abdali and the fearless Marathas under the leadership of Sadashiv Rao Bhau. Arjun Kapoor’s portrayal of Sadashiv Rao Bhau didn’t impress people and this became a major reason why the film failed to live up to the anticipations of audiences and critics alike. Nevertheless, people have praised Sanjay Dutt as ferocious Ahmad Shah Abdali who did full justice to his character with his flawless dialogue delivery.

Mudassar Aziz’s “Pati, Patni Aur Woh” is a remake of 1978 release of the same name in which Sanjeev Kumar, Ranjeeta Kaur and Vidya Sinha played lead roles. It is the story of a married couple (Kartik and Bhumi) whose lives change completely with the entry of a young girl (Ananya) as the husband makes attempts to impress her. Although the story was known to all, the flick garnered attention and interest due to its music and the performances of actors have also been praised by viewers.

“Pati, Patni Aur Woh” is expected to grow bigger in the days to come while it will be interesting to see how “Panipat” will perform on the box-office in its first weekend.

Which of these movies have you watched or are planning to watch?

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The Indian cricket team will be playing a three T20 match series against West Indies starting December 6 and fans are quite sure that Indian leg break bowler Yuzvendra Chahal will play an important role in the series.

Chahal may be one of the best spinners in the cricketing world at this moment but he certainly needs to improve his performance with the bat. It becomes more important for a bowler to learn some batting skills as nowadays the game has become so tough that all-rounders are preferred in the shortest format of the game.

Recently, Chahal posted a photo of himself on his Instagram account on which he is quite active. In this pic, he was seen batting in the nets and this gave a chance to many people from cricket fraternity to troll him including the England Woman cricketer Danielle Wyatt.

The caption that was written by Chahal read, “Enjoying my day out in the nets ”.

Check out the post:

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Enjoying my day out in the nets

A post shared by Yuzvendra Chahal (@yuzi_chahal23) on Dec 5, 2019 at 5:13am PST

Danielle Wyatt couldn’t stop herself from commenting after seeing Chahal’s pic and she wrote “Bowled” with a grinning emoji. 

Along with Danielle Wyatt, the fielding coach of the Indian team, R Sridhar also didn’t miss the chance to have some fun on Chahal’s expense. He posted, “What a worried look” with a wink eye emoji.

What do you have to say about Chahal’s photo?

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