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South Africa's Matthew Breetzke hits 150 in record-breaking ODI debut

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Opener Matthew Breetzke scored a record-breaking 150 on his ODI debut, helping South Africa reach 304-6 against New Zealand in Pakistan. His innings included 11 fours and five sixes. South Africa, missing several key players, had four debutants in this game. This tri-nation series serves as a warm-up for the upcoming Champions Trophy.

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NEW DELHI: Matthew Breetzke announced his arrival in style, smashing a record-breaking 150 on his ODI debut to propel South Africa to 304-6 against New Zealand in the tri-nation series in Pakistan on Monday.

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The 26-year-old opener delivered a commanding 148-ball innings at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, surpassing the previous highest score on ODI debut—Desmond Haynes’ 148 for West Indies against Australia in 1978. His knock, featuring 11 fours and five sixes, laid a strong foundation for South Africa after they were put in to bat.

Breetzke shared a 37-run opening stand with skipper Temba Bavuma (20) before forging a crucial 93-run partnership with Jason Smith (41) for the second wicket. He reached his maiden century off 128 balls, becoming only the fourth South African to score a hundred on ODI debut, joining Reeza Hendricks, Tony de Zorzi, and Colin Ingram.

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He then took his innings to another level, lofting Ben Sears for a six to bring up 150 before falling to Matt Henry in the 46th over, caught by Michael Bracewell at mid-off.

Wiaan Mulder provided a strong finish with a brisk 64 off 60 balls, hitting five fours and a six, ensuring South Africa crossed the 300-run mark. Among New Zealand’s bowlers, Henry (2-59) and Will O’Rourke (2-72) were the most effective.

South Africa, missing several key players due to domestic T20 commitments and injuries, handed debuts to four players in the match.

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Meanwhile, New Zealand made a single change, bringing in Devon Conway to replace Rachin Ravindra, who suffered an injury during their 78-run win over Pakistan on Saturday.

Pakistan, the third team in the tri-series, is hosting the tournament as a warm-up for the upcoming Champions Trophy, which begins on February 19.

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Bada Naam Karenge review

 

Bada Naam Karenge review: Weighed down by kitchen-sink politics, this Rajshri series is plain creaky

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February 7, 2025

Bada Naam Karenge review: The nine-part show stars Ritik Ghanshani and Ayesha Kaduskar in the lead role.

Watching this nine-part show, run by Sooraj R Barjatya, the Rajshri scion who got back maryada and sanskriti back into Hindi cinema in the mid-90s, is a conflicting business.

It makes you wonder at the time and place we live in: have we moved forward at all from the 1994 Hum Aapke Hain Koun!, in which it was perfectly acceptable to offer a freshly-widowed bhai’s hand to his sister-in-law, and where the big temple-going joint family is kind-but-dismissive to its minority characters?

Or did we make the forward move — Ratlam Junction, made famous with Jab We Met’s ‘main-toh-apni-favourite-hoon’ spirited Geet, finds a prominent place here — only to return to era of the elders-and-betters-knowing-best-most-of-the-time, and the young had better behave, or else?

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Or even more depressingly, was that brief interlude of youthful freedom which keeps rearing its head every decade or so, an illusion? Is this who we always were: a conformist society which insists on instant obedience in the name of respect?

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In 2025’s ‘Bada Naam Karenge’, the meet-cute between Ujjain girl Surbhi Gupta (Ayesha Kaduskar) and Ratlam boy Rishabh Rathi (Ritik Ghanshani), is sweet and sanitised. Later in the series, Surbhi tells Rishabh ‘ab sasur apni samdhan ke liye harmonium to nahin bajayenge’, or words to that effect, a straight-up reference to that scene in ‘HAHK’: sure, harmoniums may be outmoded even in Tier 3 towns (this is an actual phrase someone uses here), but everything else, except the pesky pomeranian, is intact.

The big house, traditional-business aesthetic tethering tauji-taiji-mummy-papa-bua-phoopha, the lectures that frowning tauji (Kanwaljit) is ready with at the drop of a hat, the tension between the taiji (Alka Amin) and the bua (Anjana Sukhani), and Rishabh’s parents (Rajesh Jais and Chitrali Lokesh Gupte), whose reasons, generated by the crafty phupha (Rajesh Tailang), we come to learn by and by.

Rishabh himself is a model young man, ‘agyakari’ to a fault, wanting to use his B school degree to promote the family business: their ‘mithai-ki-dukaan’ is famous in all Ratlam, and he wants to make it famous everywhere else too.

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The poor girl-rich boy class distinction in Barjatya’s ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ turns up in the creation of Surbhi’s more modest dwelling, with her professor father (Jameel Khan) , mother (Deepika Amin) and elder brother (Gyandendra Tripathi), always aware of the ‘ladka’ belonging to the ‘bada ghar’.

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‘Bada Naam Karenge’ is yet another meta reference to an older movie, the mega-popular ‘Papa kehte hain’ song from ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, which is, ironically, a film which celebrated romantic rebels. Here the title speaks to Rishabh making a name for his family, and for the nice, decent, ‘susheel’ girl he has given his heart to, ‘susheelta’ being the most important feature of what society, even today, insists in a girl. She is studying to be a virologist, but apart from telling us this, nothing is mentioned of what she wants to do, other than getting married. And the conflict which arises between the two families, which threatens to disrupt the potential future of the youngsters, feels unbelievably outdated.

Pushing past the constraints of their character arcs revolving around ‘maan-sammaan’ and ‘apmaan’, the ensemble does their job well. There is a distinct sweetness between Surbhi and Rishabh, and they make an effort to not make it cloying. He gets a chance to get his point-of-view in, through which he tries to right the wrong done unto his aunt by his family, and the girl’s father is given a couple of lines, celebrating his daughter, which makes us feel that he is with the times. But it really is so little.

The rest of it, weighed down by the kitchen-sink politics perfected by Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Films, is just plain creaky.

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Bada Naam Karenge cast: Ritik Ghanshani, Ayesha Kaduskar, Kanwaljit, Rajesh Jais, Alka Amin, Jameel Khan, Deepika Amin, Rajesh Tailang, Anjana Sukhani, Chaitrali Lokesh Gupte, Gyanendra Tripathi

Bada Naam Karenge director: Palash Vaswani

Bada Naam Karenge rating: 2 stars

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The Mehta Boys movie review

 

The Mehta Boys movie review: Amid duds served by Bollywood, Boman Irani-Avinash Tiwary film is well worth your time

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February 7, 2025

The Mehta Boys movie review: The film marks Boman Irani's directorial debut.

The spiky relationship between a father-and-son, which shapes the narrative in ‘The Mehta Boys’, leads us to predict a resolution in which things will get better. The theme has that familiar predictive tilt built into it, but what lifts ‘The Mehta Boys’ are the little spurts of unpredictability built into the script of Boman Irani’s directorial debut.

That, and the performances, which are all pitch perfect.

You know that Boman Irani will inhabit Shiv Mehta without a degree of separation, the actor’s suavity giving way to his elderly character’s slightly-bent-shoulders, mostly-lost-after-the-death-of-his-wife situation. No surprise there, because Irani’s irascible, eccentric Parsi gent is an amalgam of the many Shivs he, and we, may have encountered: this is his territory, and he revels in it.

The junior Mehta boy, Amay (Avinash Tiwary) lives in Mumbai, and has been trying to hack it as an architect under the benign but demanding eye of the owner of the firm (Siddharth Basu). As the son who left home but hasn’t still found his feet, either at his workplace or in his ramshackle flat, Tiwary is, as always, very good.

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Co-worker-cum-girlfriend Zara (Shreya Chaudhry) displays the mixture of affection and exasperation smart women adopt when faced with a man who will not, or cannot, do the thing he needs to, to get where he wants to. Shiv’s US-based daughter Anu (Puja Sarup), understandably wary of the tensions between her father and brother, shows up briefly only to depart, leaving the two men to their devices. Can they fake it till they make it?

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These pushes and pulls come to the fore as the tale, written by Irani and Alexander Dinelaris, progresses. While the writing is on point, things get constricted in a few places, making the film lose a bit of its fluidity. You wish those scenes had been given more breathing time. At a crucial point, Mehta Sr looks out from the balcony of Mehta Jr’s flat, shaking his head at all the ‘glass and steel’, and you know that the phrase will come up for air when the latter’s grasp and reach finally meet.

But those are minor niggles. In all the duds that Bollywood is serving up these days, ‘The Mehta Boys’, which looks at daddy issues with understanding and empathy, and the things that make relationships tick, and stick, is well worth your time.

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The Mehta Boys movie cast: Boman Irani, Avinash Tiway, Shreya Chaudhry, Puja Sarup, Siddharth Basu

The Mehta Boys movie director: Boman Irani

The Mehta Boys movie rating: 3.5 stars