Victory
August 22, 2009

Release: 30 January 2009
Genre: Sports
Director: Ajitpal Mangat
Producer: Manmohan Shetty, Ajitpal Mangat
Singers: Sukhwinder Singh, Krishna, Kay Kay, Shaan, Suresh Wadkar, Dibendu, Anushka Manchanda, Daler Mehndi, Kailash Kher, Sonu Nigam, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Sudesh Bhosle
Lyricist: Syed Gulrez, Amitabh Verma
Music: Anu Malik
Cast: Hurman S. Baweja, Anupam Kher, Amrita Rao, Navjot Singh Siddhu, Allan Border, Dalip Tahil, Gulshan Grover, Mohindar Amarnath
Special Appearance: Mike Hussey, Stuart Clarke, Brad Haddin, Shoaib Mallik, Kamran Akmal, Waquar Yunus, Sanath Jayasurya, Chaminda Vaas, Muthaiah Murlitharan, Mahroof, Graeme Smith, A. Morkel, M. Morkel, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Ramesh Powar, Brett Lee, Simon Katich, Brad Hogg, Michael Slater, Dean Jones, Suhail Tanvir, Rao Iftekhar, Kumara Sangakkara, Fernando, Ajantha Mendes, Andre Nel, Pat Symcox, Dinesh Karthik, R. P. Singh, Praveen Kumar, Yusuf Pathan

In India, cricket is much much more than just a game; it is a passion, an obsession, a religion!Millions of   youngsters, in all the corners of the country, dream of playing for India! A dream which incredibly only ONE in   every 100 MILLION realizes.’VICTORY’ is the story of a father, Ram, who saw such an impossible dream for his son!   This is also the HEROIC story of his son Vijay Shekhawat.Hailing from the small town of Jaisalmer, Vijay Shekhawat   becomes India’s latest world-class batting sensation and is catapulted to superstardom!But it is the glamour and   the glitter of this very demi-god status that makes the young, vulnerable small-town boy Vijay stray from his true   vocation of cricket. Unfortunately this leads to a loss of focus and to a miserable drop in his performance. But   by the time Vijay realizes the error of his ways, it is too late and he finds himself thrown out of the Indian   cricket team because of disciplinary reasons. Suddenly the hero of the cricket crazy India becomes a villain in   everyone’s eyes. His father Ram’s dreams are shattered and suffer a paralytic stroke.This tragedy awakens Vijay’s   conscience and sense of honor. He wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his father and every Indian. Against   great odds, he once again makes it back to the Indian team and gets to play in the finals of the Champion’s trophy   against Australia where he plays a stellar role in enabling India to win the Trophy. Where in the emotionally   moving final, in spite of being hospitalized mid-innings because of an injury, Vijay returns to bat, risking   permanent injury, when India are nine down, to pull off an impossible victory against the world champion, Ricky   Ponting’s Australia.In this, the last match of his life, Vijay Shekhawat fulfils his father’s dreams and enters   the pantheon of Indian cricket. That night itself he retires from Cricket and decides to spend the rest of his   life with a mission to teach the budding young cricketers of India that cricket is not about playing for one’s   personal stardom, but for the pride of your country and the pride of every cricket-loving Indian. If ‘GOAL’ was   the definitive soccer film, and”BULL DURHAM” the definitive baseball film then “VICTORY” will be the definitive   cricket film.