Shukla The Reviewer ( Anupam Shukla's Blog )

Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers (2020) Review - Abhishek Bachhan , Amitabh Bachhan :- I think documentaries or docuseries or basically anything that follows a real person's journey has become restricted to a formula. You show their humble beginnings, their struggles, then their rise to fame, then the corruption of the mind due to the fame, and finally how they overcome that by harking back to their initial days of struggle. For the most part, Sons of the Soil does exactly that, and for a person who hasn't watched a lot of kabaddi, it was fairly engaging. It zoomed across the nation to show every player's background and it got me in the feels as well. The cross-cutting between the soft centers of these people and the hard exteriors that they've to put on to make a living was interesting. But then suddenly, it just turned into an out-and-out tragedy and started to rush towards the ending, failing to tell the complete story. That said, it does show that neither Abh