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When a teen in rural India discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding, she faces a rough road as she follows her dream to compete.When a teen in rural India discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding, she faces a rough road as she follows her dream to compete.When a teen in rural India discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding, she faces a rough road as she follows her dream to compete.
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Really inspiring movie... never give up and always follow up your dreams.. an incredible message for all dreamers.
7.3 stars.
I feel like this is more a story about a girl living in an impoverished village in India trying to envision a better life, rather than her being a skater girl. It's obvious that her dreams are very limited. In a first world nation, dreams like this are child's play. But in her situation, her simple dream is to skate. It would be comparable to an American child dreaming of one day riding a bicycle. You see the profoundly limited opportunity these poor children in the lower castes of India have.
Eventually, her miniature dream turns into a reality and she has the opportunity to skate. Unfortunately, that is just about all she can do outside of intense chores around the house as a poor and worthless girl.
She is hoping to enter a skateboarding competition, but her domineering father has other plans. It's a bittersweet ending for sure.
I feel like this is more a story about a girl living in an impoverished village in India trying to envision a better life, rather than her being a skater girl. It's obvious that her dreams are very limited. In a first world nation, dreams like this are child's play. But in her situation, her simple dream is to skate. It would be comparable to an American child dreaming of one day riding a bicycle. You see the profoundly limited opportunity these poor children in the lower castes of India have.
Eventually, her miniature dream turns into a reality and she has the opportunity to skate. Unfortunately, that is just about all she can do outside of intense chores around the house as a poor and worthless girl.
She is hoping to enter a skateboarding competition, but her domineering father has other plans. It's a bittersweet ending for sure.
This movie is mostly about the British woman who saved Indian children form their negligent parents and adults in general... yes, because all the adults in third world countries don't know what is best for their children so they really really really need another white person to go and teach them what to do.
This movie has a wonderful feel good factor and emphasizes on how one small step can change the destiny of so many people in a positive way. Very beautifully shot with great performances by everyone. This movie will connect emotionally with people.
Skater Girl is a movie that focused mainly on a rural poor teenage girl who had no idea what to become and achieve in life and is soon introduced to the world of skateboarding.
Okay so the plot felt average to me nothing new except the sport of skateboarding being included.
It also had scenes that touched caste discrimination and inequality topics but it was just touch an go situation.
There is a scene where the British Indian lady asks to the lead actress "is the caste system still relevant?" And the answer comes in as "Nobody talks about it but still follow it" I felt like that was a good line.
The lead actor and newcomer RACHEL SAANCHITHA GUPTA as PRERNA is brilliant,very convincing and is ofc the heart of the movie but the subcharacters were equally convincing for me especially SUBODH who was a very likeable character and was portrayed nicely by VINAYAK GUPTA.
AMY MAGHERA (as the British Indian) and JONATHAN READWIN (an American friend of the londoner) did their part well too.
The character arc of prerna was intriguing and compelling to watch.
Be it finding her passion,her first taste of freedom or overcoming her fear.
A nice brother sister relationship is also there are as part of the subplot.
Songs were decent but imo they didn't sync with the scenes except the MAARI CHALANGEIN song that was a really good song and went hand in hand with the scenes.
Visually good too some shots were just brilliant.
Only the screenplay felt a little bit flawed to me like the movie was convincing on some points but other times it felt forced.
That's how I felt it
Overall it's an enjoyable coming of age sports drama that was worth my time.
Hoping that it also will be worth yours too.
Okay so the plot felt average to me nothing new except the sport of skateboarding being included.
It also had scenes that touched caste discrimination and inequality topics but it was just touch an go situation.
There is a scene where the British Indian lady asks to the lead actress "is the caste system still relevant?" And the answer comes in as "Nobody talks about it but still follow it" I felt like that was a good line.
The lead actor and newcomer RACHEL SAANCHITHA GUPTA as PRERNA is brilliant,very convincing and is ofc the heart of the movie but the subcharacters were equally convincing for me especially SUBODH who was a very likeable character and was portrayed nicely by VINAYAK GUPTA.
AMY MAGHERA (as the British Indian) and JONATHAN READWIN (an American friend of the londoner) did their part well too.
The character arc of prerna was intriguing and compelling to watch.
Be it finding her passion,her first taste of freedom or overcoming her fear.
A nice brother sister relationship is also there are as part of the subplot.
Songs were decent but imo they didn't sync with the scenes except the MAARI CHALANGEIN song that was a really good song and went hand in hand with the scenes.
Visually good too some shots were just brilliant.
Only the screenplay felt a little bit flawed to me like the movie was convincing on some points but other times it felt forced.
That's how I felt it
Overall it's an enjoyable coming of age sports drama that was worth my time.
Hoping that it also will be worth yours too.
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- TriviaYou can actually find the skate park on Google Maps at this coordinate: 24.752060, 74.030722.
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- Udaipur, Rajasthan, India(Khempur Skatepark)
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- 1h 47m(107 min)
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