| Friday, 08 April 2022 |
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Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],
Last week, I watched the trailer of Shabaash Mithu, the upcoming biopic of Indian cricket captain Mithali Raj. It’s a movie that has been in the works since September 2017, just after India reached the final of the 2017 ICC Women’s World Cup. It then took over two years for the makers, Viacom18 Studios, to announce in December 2019 that actor Taapsee Pannu will play Raj in the movie.
Two more years and a pandemic later, Raj announced on social media in December 2021 that the movie will be released in February, just ahead of the 2022 ICC Women’s World Cup.
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February and the Women’s World Cup have come and gone, but there’s still no sign of the movie apart from the trailer, which was released on 21 March. The trailer says the movie is “Coming Soon”, with no new release date announced.
In a way, this is pretty par for the course when it comes to women’s cricket in India. For instance, a women’s Indian Premier League has been in the works for over a decade.
