Baseball is big in the USA, as is cricket in India, and the crux of this movie’s storyline is that a smart sports agent goes recruiting in India for fresh talent. Only, it so happens that he finds two young men who don’t even play cricket but know how to pitch a baseball with speed and style and technique and all that. This is their story — of being found, and of making it big in a foreign land by playing a foreign sport.
I suppose all sports enthusiasts would appreciate the overall plot and the whole American recruitment strategy in a third-world country. And then there are people like me who would care more about the looks of Jon Hamm and make mental comparisons to his role in Mad Men.
Disney put together a good team in Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton and the two Indian boys. The bonus feature of the film is the shots and frames of various landscapes in India that range from rural settings and congested urban areas, including the grandiose Taj Mahal also, of course.
