Skater Girl Review: A Simple yet effective sports drama
Skater Girl Movie Rating: 3 stars
Just watched Skater Girl movie on Netflix. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Rachel Saanchita Gupta, Amrit Maghera, Shafin Patel and Waheeda Rehman
Director: Manjari Makijany
Release Date: 11th June 2021 (On Disney Plus Hotstar VIP)
Story: Film is set in a remote village Khempur in Rajasthan, India. It follows the story of a dalit firl Prerna (Rachel Saanchita Gupta) who is a local teen living a life bound by tradition and duty to her parents. She struggles to keep her dreams alive in a small household of a patriarchal society. She wants to go to school, but ends up with just the task of dropping her younger brother Ankush (Shafin Patel) to school, while she is required to do odd jobs to help her family make ends meet.
She wants to go play but is reminded time and again that she will need to prepare to be a married woman soon enough. She wants to fall in love, but is warned that she cannot possibly think of a future with a boy she fancies because he belongs to the upper caste. She more or less surrenders to her fate and perceived destiny when London-bred Jessica (Amrit Maghera) lands up in her village. She arrives in Khempur on a two-week retreat to learn more about her late father’s childhood.
Jessica is on her own journey of self-discovery, before she finds a purpose of a different sort during her interactions with Prerana and the other children of the village. Prerna and the other local children are introduced to an exciting new adventure thanks to Jessica and her old friend (Jonathan Readwin) who cruises into town on a skateboard. The kids become infatuated with the sport skating through the village disrupting everything and everyone around them.
Determined to empower and encourage their newfound passion, Jessica sets out on an uphill battle to build the kids their own skate park but get opposed by the locals including a cop, an upper-caste school teacher and an unhelpful politician. But finally she gets the support from Maharani of state (Waheeda Rehman). Erick with his friends supports Jessica and prepare the Skate Park and also trained children how to skateboard at a competitive level.
Jessica plans a National Skateboarding Championships for the children to show their talent. In a incident, Prerana get injured and his father who was not aware of his passion opposed him and set his marriage on the championship day. What happen next will Prerana will get marry or follow her dreams is all about this movie.
Positives
1. Excellent Performances
2. Cinematography
3. Direction
4. Story
5. Climax
Negatives
1. Predictable
2. Length
3. Music
4. Slow screenplay
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : Netflix didn’t promote this film so I was not even aware of this film. One of my friend watched this movie and told me to watch then I planned to watch this film because always fascinated for inspiring films.
Prerana is a young village girl who gradually accepting her destiny to be nothing more than the mundane lives of the other women and girls that she has seen around her, until she discovers a world beyond the norm when a British-Indian woman Jessica lands up in her village. Life-changing passion for skateboarding and rough road to follow her dream to compete.
The film is simple, sweet and rightly serves the purpose of reminding us that life is never easy, but it does give us choices, what we make of them is what defines our life ahead. It is nothing out of the box, it doesn’t show you anything new about rural India, but it does effectively bring out the ugly truth of ‘killed dreams’ of children in such villages with a positive outlook. The dialogues, not many, touch your heart and the innocent performances keep you engaged in the film. My view on this movie (Recommended)
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