happy or sad that was daunting i want people who dont know about mithali or womens cricket to understand the emotionmithali raj while watching the film there were a few moments that made me tearyeyedimpressed with taapsees performance in the film mithali says after watching the trailer whatever apprehensions i had if she will be able to bat the way i bat the details of when i get into the cricket gear and the way i walk to the crease were gone after all these years of playing cricket i know it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to master taapsee had to learn all that in such less time and it wasnt like she could cheat during the shoot she had to play that role cricket is a game of skill she had to learn that and she did i appreciate how hard she worked to get it right acting is something she is good at that is her forte but the sport is not and she had to put in the hard yards to do it mithali adds in biopics the athlete and the person who is playing the role should be very similar otherwise you wont be able to relate to themmithali adds that is the aspect i was keen on there are no videos from the initial phase of my career but 2013 onwards there are videos so you really cant do anything different from what is documented i wanted to see whether it would come close to reality and they pulled it off the movie also comes at a point when mithali recently announced her retirement from all forms of international cricket ask her if watching the film gave her a flashback of her career spanning over two decades and she says i revisited a few emotions while watching the movie as said i am not expressive i internalise it but when i was watching the film there were a few moments that made me a little tearyeyed because there are some things which happened when i was very young and i did not know how to deal with them but i did the best i could now when those things are shown on the big screen i remember what i went through i am in a better position to understand those emotions i felt as a young kidajit andhare shabaash mithu looks into the world of womens cricketajit andhare the creative producer of shabaash mithu says that the idea of the film was to bring forward the story of womens cricket which was hardly heard of or seen he says the whole idea sprang from the irony that we are a cricketloving country but we know so little about our women cricketers this became apparent to me when i was watching the 2016 film hidden figures which in a way is touching upon the same point but in a very different field then there was a moment when