Maidaan gets postponed for the 7th time, Here’s why

Badhaai Ho director Amit Ravindranath Sharma’s Maidaan has been postponed again. It won’t be released on June 23 as per schedule. This is the seventh postponement of this ambitious sports film’s release. Eyebrows are being raised about its tenability. Would Maidaan get a release any time soon?This writer spoke to a source very close to the project who revealed all the details on the film’s delay: “Maidaan is a very ambitious film. It is no ordinary sports film. It stars Ajay Devgn as the legendary football coach Syed Abdul Rahim, and it features a series of authentic football matches with real football players from all over the world participating in the shooting. Amit Sharma invited football players from all across the world-- Japan, South Korea, France, Thailand-- to come and play in the matches for Maidaan. A series of matches were shot for Maidaan showing India playing football with different countries. The football matches were shot on an international scale. There is no compromise on quality.”Adds the source, “All this is taking more time than expected. They are trying to make a film that India will be proud of. It will release later during the year. When it does release, it would be a landmark of a film.”