Khel Khel Mein
Synopsis
The IMS College is known for many things including its business studies and brilliant students but if there is anything it is not known for, that would be its drama society. Everyone enrolled in the drama society is either there for
bunking classes or for their newly developed love interests. Only a few actually have the heart for arts. The college receives an invitation for a theatre competition taking place in Bangladesh. For the sake of formality, they announce
the deal to the students but as they guessed, not many are interested except a few. The drama society starts working on the idea for the play when one of them suggests the 1971 war and that’s where the problem begins.
A theatre play from Pakistan to be performed in Bangladesh about the 1971 war. That too in the presence of team from India? No one agrees. The principal opposes the idea, so do the teachers. Even their parents do not want them to do
something so risky. The students are forced to drop the idea but when their Bengali peon starts crying while sharing his experience of the war, the students decide not to give up yet. Not all students in this theatre groups are driven by
patriotism. Some of them have personal reasons too. However, the students start rehearsing and auditioning.
The time for the competition closes in. The parents are worried. The teachers aren’t sure either but it is the first time that their college will get to represent the nation, that too in the field of arts. The team somehow makes its way
to the competition. They reach Bangladesh and soon realize they aren’t welcomed there. They start feeling the discrimination between them and team India. The Indians are treated as friends. They get along very well with the host team.
The team from India is also the defending champion. Their pride about their rich art culture is quite visible. Team Pakistan starts feeling like the underdogs. They start lacking confidence and hence start falling apart. They get in
arguments about how they shouldn’t be here. They get in fight with the Indian team and hence further lose respect in the eyes of the Bengalis.
The team gathers courage and gets back together for the sake of performance. For the sake of everyone back home and for the sake of the art. Will they win? Will they lose? Doesn’t matter. What matters is that they come back home with
respect and love of the people who didn’t even want to welcome them in the first place. They change perceptions, they win hearts.
Credits
Directed by Nabeel Qureshi
Written by Fizza Ali Meerza and Nabeel Qureshi
Starring Bilal Abbas, Sajal Ali, Marina Khan, Javed Sheikh, Samina Ahmed, Manzar Sehbai, Erfan MotiWala, Nazar Hussain, Naveed Raza, Farhan Aly Agha, Zehar Nawab
Genre Drama
Release Date 19-Nov-2021