The Goal

• Watched this 1999 movie starring Irrfan Khan and I must say that this movie is just great.
• It is a gem of a movie.
• This movie got downloaded to Tata Sky pen drive when we leave it in standby mode overnight.
• You realise that so many good movies just pass you by and you're never even aware.
• It makes you fall in love with the game of football.
• It makes you want to be young again so that you can play football.
• You realise that it is just wrong that cricket is the most popular game in the Indian subcontinent.
• The credit should go to football.
• Football and Indians were made for each other.
• Unfortunate that cricket has got the respect which should have gone to football.
• Maybe the traditional Indians felt/feel that cricket being a "gentleman's game" and watched Englishmen play they thought they can beat the English by dominating in cricket. 
• Beat them in their own game so as to say and feel superior and same continues even 70 years after independence.
• But the truth is football is a real game which one can build a career with.
• Or so it appears in the movie.
• And in a perfect world and perfect India would have been the one where football is given more respect than cricket.