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Gold Film Review By Manya Malhotra

Gold 3.5 Drama Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amit Sadh, Kunal Kapoor,  Mouni Roy, Vineet Kumar, Sunny Kaushal, Nikita Dutta  Director: Reema Kagti Story: An account of ‘Free India’s ‘ victory in the 1948 olympics and the struggle that made it possible. Review:      Gold starts off at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, where India is playing in the final. The first 10-15 minutes of the film are quite melodramatic and I guess the makers realised that because the melodrama got turned down a few notches after that. Akshay Kumar plays the patriotic manager of a hockey team who claims that he can lead the ‘free India’ team to victory. He expects people to believe him and they mostly do. When they don’t, he becomes a stumbling, fumbling alcoholic who comes back home haggard and miserable much to the dismay of his wife.       Also, I don’t know which accent Akshay Kumar was speaking in, but it wasn’t Bengali. His bad attempt at the accent r...