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 Title
Stumped
Cast Raveena Tandon, Aly Khan, Guest: Salman Khan
Director Gaurav Pandey
Genre Drama
Year 2003
Stumped is a story set during the 1999 cricket world cup and the simultaneous
development in Kargil. It traces the life of army major Raghav Seth's (who is
fighting the Kargil war) wife Reena (Raveena Tandon) 0as well as the lives of
cricket crazy residents of the Happy Home Complex. The most avid cricket lovers
among these are Mr. Khetrapal followed by Girish, Gautam and Bhola. However the
secretary of the society, Mr. Subramanium, head the anti-cricket campaign along
with another resident, Latloo Singh. During the India-Sri Lanka match the two
cut the cable wire, to teach everybody a lesson.
In the midst of the cricket mania, Baba, a good-man, visits the society and
shows Girish and Deshpande how their queries about India's chances of winning
the world cup and the fate of the stock market, are insignificant in comparison
to Raghav and the war he is fighting for the country.
Events reach a turning point when Reena receives the news that her husband Major
Raghav (Aly Khan) is missing and presumed dead, while her neighbors celebrate
the home team's win.
In many ways, 'Stumped' is a coming of age story. It is a story of exuberance
and youth, of fear and insecurities. In short, of life as we lead it. 'Stumped'
is a story, whose time has come.
   
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