Striker (2010)

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Striker is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language action drama film co-written, directed and produced by Chandan Arora. It stars Siddharth, Usha Jadhav, and Padmapriya in the lead roles, while Aditya Pancholi, Ankur Vikal, Anupam Kher, Seema Biswas, and Anup Soni, among others, play supporting roles. The film had a theatrical release in cinemas throughout India on 5 February 2010. It also premiered on YouTube the same day, thus becoming the first ever Indian film to premiere on YouTube internationally on the same day as its domestic theatrical release.

Production

Striker is editor Chandan Arora's third directorial venture after Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon (2003) and Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh (2005). The film was in development since November 2007, which revolves around the lives of a boy living in slums grows up to be a carrom player, though Arora cliamed it was neither a sports film nor a biopic, but had been accounted from real events, which Arora had fictionalised it to make it more cinematic.

Though he had not been a great carrom player, Arora considered that carrom had been a traditional game that had people had grown up playing it with families and friends. He was surprised that the game, despite being common in the underbelly of India, did not gain the popularity it anticipated, adding "It's a great indoor sport that the whole family could play and on any given day, you never know, every player has an equal chance of emerging trium…

Arora chose Siddharth to play the lead role, after being impressed by his performance in his debut film Boys (2003). When Siddharth ventured in Hindi cinema through Rang De Basanti (2006), Arora met him and narrated a different script which was a romantic drama instead. But during discussions, Arora shared few instances of the script for Striker, that led to Siddharth being impressed and both of them decided to prioritse on Striker first.

Nicolette Bird and Padmapriya were chosen as the female leads, having significant part in the plot despite their limited duration on-screen. Arora saw few clips of Padmapriya's South films on YouTube and zeroed her for the film, while Bird was chosen as they needed someone with "that kind of beauty and innocence and still depict the kind of sweet romance".

Striker was filmed entirely in Mumbai. However, due to the 1980s setting, the team had to show the city authentically for the time period in contrast to the modern-day Mumbai. Hence, much of the film was shot in Kalyan, located in the outskirts of Mumbai. The team also constructed a huge set of a basti in Malvani and shot extensively there.

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