Mukkabaaz (2017) on Netflix
Shravan Singh, a low-caste boxer, runs errands for Bhagwan Das Mishra, who heads the state boxing federation. Mishra keeps him from training, and Shravan loves Mishra's mute niece, Sunaina.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb8.0/109,644 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes88%
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Plot summary
Shravan Singh is a low-caste boxer who works for Bhagwan Das Mishra, a local politician who heads the state boxing federation. Instead of training him, Mishra has him run domestic errands, and Shravan drifts. He falls in love with Sunaina, Mishra's mute niece, and her father tells him to find a job before considering marriage. Mishra does not approve of the match. Shravan tries for the state-level tournament, and Mishra keeps him from being selected. Shravan leaves for Varanasi, where a local trainer, Sanjay Kumar, takes him in, and he still aims to win Sunaina's hand and to become a successful boxer.
Cast
- Shakti Kumaras Bhatia
- Sadhana Singhas Meera
- Shreedhar Dubeyas Gopal Tiwari
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mukkabaaz (2017)
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- Vineet Kumar Singh's script was triggered by seeing a senior boxer, a medal-winner whose photographs had appeared in newspapers, stealthily carrying luggage at Varanasi Junction railway station to make ends meet and hiding his face behind the bags.
- Vineet Kumar Singh trained for more than 700 days for the role, starting a year before filming at the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports in Patiala; he could not see punches coming, took a real beating every day and broke some ribs.
- Vineet Kumar Singh insisted on playing the lead himself, but no producer would agree to it until Anurag Kashyap learned of the script.
- Rachita Arora's first job as a film composer came after Anurag Kashyap heard her music in a parking lot; she had been recommended by Makrand Deshpande, with whom she was doing a play.
- For the tournament scenes, Anurag Kashyap sent his second unit director, Saqib Pandor, to film real boxing tournaments, which were then recreated as the film's state tournaments; the crew watched one staged under a tent with no audience because the ring was being used for something else.
- Anurag Kashyap said it was boxing and the case of Narsingh Pancham Yadav, who was accused of doping, that prompted him to make the film.
