In case you guys missed it, the highly anticipated sports drama, ‘Rashmi Rocket’ dropped on ZEE5 yesterday… and it was decent. While the film is not without its issues, it is a decent one-time watch. The direct-to-OTT release talks about one of the lesser known discriminations faced by women in sports – the gender test. While ‘Rashmi Rocket’ is quite over-the-top in many regards, the film does manage to educate the masses about the test and the discrimination women face around the country because of it – making this film an important one. Still, it doesn’t excuse the fact that the movie is filled with many plot holes, which makes the movie much less appealing. In this article, we will be looking at three plot holes that you missed while watching ‘Rashmi Rocket’ on ZEE5:
UpGrad
Sponsorships are becoming less and less subtle, and the sponsorship of this above-mentioned online course company will not be missed by many in ‘Rashmi Rocket’. While the film randomly finds a way to mention UpGrad – it has also created a continuity problem. See, UpGrad was founded in 2015, but the scene where the online course company is talked about, is set in 2014 (likely even before that). This is either a huge mistake, or a troll by the screenwriter.
Childhood Trauma
Childhood traumas make or break a person. And Rashmi’s childhood trauma is bad enough for her to need regular therapy until she becomes an adult (and possibly even some time after that as well). So it is quite irritating that she decides to let go of the trauma, which she has been holding onto for more than decade, because a guy she met told her to not let it control her. We are pretty sure many other people from her own family would have said something along those lines to her, but a cute guy changed her mind overnight. The message sent here is completely wrong, and that is not even taking in the fact that this is not how someone gets over trauma that has been haunting them for more than half their lifetime.
Sachin Tendulkar
The courtroom sequences were some of the dramatic and over-the-top scenes in the whole movie, but thankfully some of them had a few moments of logic in it. The Sachin Tendulkar dialogue about his timing, however, was unnecessary and redundant. While the Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps examples made sense in the context of the movie, Virendar Sehwag’s hand-eye-coordination had no right to be a part of that conversation and Sachin’s timing even less so. We figured that many an Indian would probably not know who Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps are, so the filmmakers had to use Sehwag and Tendulkar to put their point across, but in our opinion, that just drags the conversation away from the logical to the overly-dramatic, nonsensical section.
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