Rashmi Rocket Movie Review | Taapsee Pannu | Priyanshu Painyuli

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Rashmi Rocket, starring Taapsee Pannu as Rashmi Vira, picks on the archaic practise of gender testing, to ascertain testosterone level among female athletes and how it has ruined many careers and sometimes, the entire life of these girls. While Bollywood has churned out several sports films, director Akarsh Khurana's Rashmi Rocket is slightly different and unique. It isn't about that one big life-changing game towards the climax which makes the hero shine. It's is about the journey towards that change, and the battle an athlete has to fight for her lost identity. It takes on an important issue and explains it in a rather simplified manner — less on the running track and more inside the courtroom. Also, unlike many sports films where parents are against their kids pursuing sports and later accept them when they bring laurels, Rashmi Rocket sets the tone right from the beginning. Rashmi's parents, played by Supriya Pathak and Manoj Joshi never stop her from being "different" since childhood. Everything is hunky-dory from Rashmi being the most talented sprinter in Bhuj to her falling in love with Major Thakur (played by Priyanshu Painyuli) and then landing in Indian Athlete Association where she trains with other girls. Until the point when she is unknowingly made to undergo a gender test and hereon, things turn for worse. Whether Rashmi decides to give up and accept it as her fate or does she get up and fight with the system, forms the basic premise of the film. The film is streaming on Zee5.