Maidan official Trailer Maidaan’ also tends to get into an explanatory tell-don’t-show mode often. And the templates of a sporting drama stay templated: an encouraging-speech-by-coach-just-before-a-crucial-match comes off more a colourless long dialogue on the ‘power of one’, than a rousing let’s-go-and-get-’em anthem. What makes up for it is the great action on the field: even a novice like me understood the ‘strategy’ sketched out by the coach which helped India beat S Korea 2-1, a historic win that’s never been bested.
