Striker is a film directed by Editor-Director Chandan Arora. Chandan has always made a character based tales but this time he has come up with a very well written central character that has never before exposed on Indian screen. Striker is story of a poor boy Surya (Siddharth), born in poor family, grown up with few luxuries. Poor health keeps him away from school often and that is when his elder brother, Chandrakant (Anoop Soni), introduces him to carrom. Chandrakant quits playing after he loses a heavy bet with local goon, Jaleel. A hope for a job in Dubai replaces the passion for carrom as Surya grows into a young man. He wants to work in Dubai and in the process is duped by a local agency. Surya loses his hard earned money he had saved for going to Dubai. Surya is forced to cross paths with Jaleel (Aditya Pancholi). His childhood friend Zaid (Ankur Vikal) gets him back on track to earn money the quick way by betting on carrom games. Reluctant at first, the lure of the lucre soon draws Surya to the betting addas. Being robbed of his hard earned money by the same man who had caused misery for many families, Surya decides to take on Jaleel on his turf. Acting wise, Siddharth delivers a natural performance. Aditya Pancholi looks venomous and enacts his part just too wonderfully. Anupam Kher is fine. Seema Biswas gets into the skin of the character. Ankur Vikal is superb. He puts life into the character. Anoop Soni is wonderful. Vidya Malvade is just okay. On the whole, Striker is a very nice film with good concept. The movie is worth a watch.
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Striker is a film directed by Editor-Director Chandan Arora. Chandan has always made a character based tales but this time he has come up with a very well written central character that has never before exposed on Indian screen.

Striker is story of a poor boy Surya (Siddharth), born in poor family, grown up with few luxuries. Poor health keeps him away from school often and that is when his elder brother, Chandrakant (Anoop Soni), introduces him to carrom. Chandrakant quits playing after he loses a heavy bet with local goon, Jaleel.

A hope for a job in Dubai replaces the passion for carrom as Surya grows into a young man. He wants to work in Dubai and in the process is duped by a local agency. Surya loses his hard earned money he had saved for going to Dubai. Surya is forced to cross paths with Jaleel (Aditya Pancholi).

His childhood friend Zaid (Ankur Vikal) gets him back on track to earn money the quick way by betting on carrom games. Reluctant at first, the lure of the lucre soon draws Surya to the betting addas. Being robbed of his hard earned money by the same man who had caused misery for many families, Surya decides to take on Jaleel on his turf.

Acting wise, Siddharth delivers a natural performance. Aditya Pancholi looks venomous and enacts his part just too wonderfully. Anupam Kher is fine. Seema Biswas gets into the skin of the character. Ankur Vikal is superb. He puts life into the character. Anoop Soni is wonderful. Vidya Malvade is just okay.

On the whole, Striker is a very nice film with good concept. The movie is worth a watch.


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After her winning stint with an outdoor sport: hockey and her subsequent success with 'Chak De', Vidya Malvade is looking inwards. Er, rather, she's sashayed her way into an indoor sport flick: 'Striker,' a carrom centric opus which spotlights her in a pivotal role.

"My character is called Devi," states Vidya. "She's a girl who comes from a lower middle class Maharashtrian background and she's also very grounded herself. She's focussed, good at academics and keeps pulling up Surya, the character played by Siddharth."

Elaborating on the 'Striker' experience, she says, "It was great working with Siddharth because he is such an unselfish actor. He's not the type who's only worried about how he looks on screen. He makes you comfortable as a co star and wants you to give off your best too. I've liked the two films that Chandan directed and I'd say that he's made a brilliant film."

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It's gotten quite deep into his psyche.. and Siddharth 'Striker' is finding it immensely tough to shake off the persona of Surya, his 'tapori' character in the Chandan Arora helmed film.

The carrom centric opus has taken over Siddharth with a sweep."I spoke in the same 'tapori' manner to my mom, who got really upset. She warned me to speak normally. But I was really finding it difficult to make the switch back to speaking normally."

Dialect dude, eh?

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