The big-ticket biographical sports movie ’83 hits theatres on the 24th of December, 2021. It is based on the Indian cricket team’s journey of winning the world cup of 1983 defeating two times world cup winner West Indies at the finals at lord’s England.
Directed by blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) fame Kabir Khan, bankrolled by the big names of Bollywood Deepika Padukone, Kabir Khan, Sajid Nadiadwala, and Vishnuvardhan Induri in association with Reliance Entertainment, Phantom Films, 83 Film Ltd, Vibri Media, & Kabir Khan Films.
’83 OTT Release Date
Talking about its Digital release, the post-theatrical digital rights of the film are acquired by the two Leading streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar.
’83 started streaming on the digital service Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar in the Hindi version & simultaneously in its dubbed versions (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam). As we said earlier, ’83 saw its digital debut after the television premiere on the pay television channel Star Gold.
Teamwork won us the World Cup in 1983 and now teamwork can help us celebrate it too.
#83 now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar and Netflix. https://t.co/S3x25omWPS
— Disney+ Hotstar (@DisneyPlusHS) March 21, 2022
Controversy
Recently, the film came into controversy when Mad Man film ventures filed a plea before the Bombay high court against Reliance and Star regarding the exploitation of digital and satellite rights.
However, the court on 19 March 2022 had rejected the claim and the court order have gone in the favour of Reliance and Star India. Thereby ’83 has seen its digital premiere on both platforms further.
83 Review
Makers had unveiled 83: The Film trailer on the social media platforms describing the story as “One of The Biggest Underdog Stories in the History of Sports” which had created a buzz before the theatrical release.
The interesting fact about the ’83 world cup is that there’s no video footage available of Kapil Dev’s unbeaten 175 against Zimbabwe in the group stage match. Owing to the broadcasting channel BBC was on strike that day, why? you will get the answer in the film.
The director aptly filmed that scene, in particular, that scene in the innings when Kapil hit the six and the ball went directly towards the Indian dugout.
Ranveer Singh portrayed the skipper Kapil’s role very beautifully, he has gone into the skin of the character, the film makes you laugh, and fills you with pride at the same time, goosebumps for sure.
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Star Cast of ’83
- It features Ranveer Singh plays as Kapil Dev, skipper of the ’83 world cup team
- Deepika Padukone is playing Kapil’ wife role as Romi Bhatia.
- Pankaj Tripathi is playing PR Man Singh who was the manager at that time.
- Tahir Raj Bhasin is playing the little master Sunil Gavaskar.
- Tamil actor Jiiva is playing Krishnamachari Srikanth’s role
- Saqib Saleem is playing Mohinder Amarnath
- Jatin Sharma as middle-order batsman Yashpal Sharma
- Chirag Patil in the role of Sandeep Patil
- Dinker Sharma in Kirti Azad’s role
- Nishant Dahiya is Roger Binny
- Punjabi singers Harrdy Sandhu and Ammy Virk are playing Madan Lal and Balwinder Sandhu respectively.
- Sahil Khattar is playing Syed Kirmani
- Adinath Kothare is Dilip Vengserkar
- Dhairya Karwa and R Badree are playing Ravi Shastri and Sunil Valson respectively.
- Boman Irani is in the role of Farokh Engineer
Production and Theatrical Release Date of ’83
The Production of ’83 started in May 2019, the major part of shooting held in London England, it was wrapped up in Oct 2019, since then makers rescheduled its release date many times owing to novel coronavirus.
Later in 2021 announced officially that it would be released on 24 Dec 2021 worldwide in theatres, released in 5 Indian languages including Hindi along with its dubbed version Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
Box Office Collection
Despite rave reviews from the critics ’83 couldn’t manage to accumulate the expected footfalls at the ticket windows. In its 8 weeks of theatrical run, ’83 minted around Rs 108.35 cr nett at the box office India and Rs 63.94 cr gross from the overseas.
’83 did the business of Rs 192.93 crores gross overall at the box office worldwide, but it can be considered a decent collection considering the covid situation at that time. Had the film been released in normal times it would have done the double business at the box office.
However, Theatregoers have shown their response, let’s see how the digital audience responds to the film. It is releasing soon on Netflix in Hindi, and on the Disney+ Hotstar in the dubbed versions.
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Trailer
The trailer is trending across all social media platforms
