Devendra Fadnavis and Tiger Shroff unite to kick-start Maharashtra’s ‘Maha-Deva’ football revolution

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Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis presided over the signing of an MoU between the School Education & Sports Department of Maharashtra and the Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA), aimed at advancing the state’s Maha-Deva football initiative. Actor Tiger Shroff attended the event to show his support for the programme, which focuses on strengthening grassroots football across the state. The Maha-Deva initiative focused on upgrading sports infrastructure, improving training systems, and identifying young football talent in schools throughout Maharashtra. Tiger Shroff’s involvement added youth appeal and athletic credibility to the government-driven effort, which emphasised discipline, participation, and structured skill development. Tiger’s presence at the MoU signing aligned with his ongoing work in fitness and youth-focused campaigns, reinforcing the programme’s aim to build broader access to sports and a stronger football culture among students. Through this ...
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Oh, Canada review – Paul Schrader looks north as Richard Gere’s draft dodger reveals all

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A dying director who fled from the US to Canada agrees to make a confessional film in Schrader’s fragmented and anticlimactic story

Muddled, anticlimactic and often diffidently performed, this oddly passionless new movie from Paul Schrader is a disappointment. It is based on the novel Foregone by Russell Banks (Schrader also adapted Banks’s novel Affliction in 1997) and reunites Schrader with Richard Gere, his star from American Gigolo. Though initially intriguing, it really fails to deliver the emotional revelation or self-knowledge that it appears to be leading up to. There are moments of intensity and promise; with a director of Schrader’s shrewdness and creative alertness, how could there not be? But the movie appears to circle endlessly around its own emotions and ideas without closing in.

The title is partly a reference to the national anthem of that nation, which is a place of freedom and opportunity which may have an almost Rosebud-type significance for the chief character, an avowed draft-resister refugee from the US in the late 60s, who becomes an acclaimed documentary film-maker in his chosen country. Maybe Vietnam was his real reason for fleeing and maybe it wasn’t. This central point is one of many things in this fragmented film which is unsatisfyingly evoked.

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