<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">Background: Manjari Makijany, Indian writer, director and producer who finds her fort&eacute; in American and Hindi cinema, is best known for her award-winning short films, The Last Marble (2012) and The Corner Table (2014). She has written and directed Skater Girl so flawlessly and passionately that it justifies its consistent trending at #3 on Netflix India&rsquo;s Top 10 list at this time.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">The characters are beautifully-written with well-defined boundaries for every role, be it Jessica, Prerna, Erick or Ankush. Jessica (Amrit Maghera), a London resident holding a top position in a reputed advertising MNC there visits India in search of some answers related to her past, story of her father and his origin. Visiting Khempur (her father&rsquo;s birthplace) makes her feel connected to him. It is here that she meets Prerna (Rachel Saanchita Gupta), a teenager from a lower caste family, who in the opening scene is seen sitting by the roadside selling peanuts. She has to skip school because of lack of finances, a proper school uniform and books. Her family can afford only one child&rsquo;s education which goes to her brother Ankush (Shafin Patel). Prerna&rsquo;s father is a factory worker who works double shifts to make ends meet and her mother is a homemaker who wants to go out for work and support the family but is barred by her husband and society on grounds of deep-seated social stigmas and taboos. A rather important role is that of Erick (Jonathan Readwin), is a friend of Jessica from L.A. who now lives in India, and is a school teacher and pro-skateboarder. It is Erick who introduces Prerna to skateboarding. Veteran Waheeda Rehman has played the Maharani with the same elegance she had in her 90&rsquo;s, her role in the movie and Prerna&rsquo;s life proves to be life-changing. The talented supporting cast has added the right amount of dramatics to the lives of the main characters, especially Anurag Arora who plays an orthodox school teacher, Swati Daas who plays Prerna&rsquo;s mother, and Ankit Yadav who plays the owner of a guest house in the village.<img src="https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/4288/704957/61138de228a57/1628671307730.jpg" owidth=790 oheight=444" width="300" />Storyline: A film without a superstar yet shines brightly in the middle of a skate park created by Manjari in a village in Rajasthan. Skater Girl is a story of a village teenager from a depressed caste who discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding and faces rough stony roads to follow her dream to compete in the skatepark, making her believe how small steps can lead to big and transformational life lessons. The silent opening scene where Prerna escorts her little brother to school by pulling him along on a roughly-made wooden plank fitted with wheels sets the very theme of the movie. It&rsquo;s what they call a &ldquo;bearing cart&rdquo;; the moment she drops him at school we can clearly sense the disappointment on her face that her brother gets to go to school but she can&rsquo;t because she has to help her father in peanut-selling and her mother in everyday chores. But then enters the very generous, poised, sophisticated and helpful Jessica who is in search of something accidently befriends Prerna and helps her buy a new school uniform and books and ensures she never skips school. Jessica connects with an old friend Erick who helps Jessica arrange skateboards for Prerna and other village kids for recreation, but eventually the children start enjoying skateboarding so much around the village streets that they create a disruption and chaos in the marketplaces and even started bunking school to skateboard the whole day.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always"><img src="https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/4288/704957/61138de228a57/1628671360203.jpg" owidth=560 oheight=373" width="300" /><div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">After the village authorities begin complaining about children hovering around everywhere chaotically, police intervention brings the children to their knees to give up their skateboards. Jessica and Erick undertake the arduous task of building them a skatepark, the first anywhere in the area of Rajasthan, so that the children can practise there. Jessica struggles for funding from the government to sports associations to politicians. But Jessica&rsquo;s never-give-up attitude for her little friends&rsquo; dreams introduces her to the Maharani of Khempur who takes some really strong decisions and proves to be a life-changer for Jessica as well as the kids. All this is not acceptable to Prerna&rsquo;s uneducated orthodox parents; they want to marry off Prerna as soon as possible so that her skate boarding passion comes to an end. Jessica cannot bear this patriarchy and fights for the kids. Does Jessica succeed in her rebellion? Was Prerna married off or did she pursue a career in the sport? Was Jessica able to find what she came looking for in the first place at Khempur? Netflix has all the answers you need!<img src="https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/4288/704957/61138de228a57/1628671360074.jpg" owidth=366 oheight=326" width="300" /><div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">My verdict: Making a low-budget independent film minus a high-profile cast with a meaningful story and satisfying ending on skateboarding which is not that celebrated-a-sport in India and that too in a village setup of Khempur a few kilometres from Udaipur, Rajasthan, where child marriage, patriarchy, casteism are still the unsaid norms of society, is what the ailing Indian cinema badly needs right now. Bollywood really needs a break from the Khans and Kapoors. Manjari and team reassure viewers like us that the future of Indian cinema is in safe hands. Every fresh face in this film has totally given their best performance and the overall storyline holds the same pace it started with till the very last scene. No sloppy work, great screenplay, fresh perspective to empowerment, optimism and hope in the storyline, honed cinematography, great music by Salim-Suleman, the perfect amount of drama and deep research into the details of a Rajasthani village environment, together make this film refreshing, entertaining, emotional and inspiring at the same time. Therefore, an 8 out of 10 on my scale.Run time: 110 minRelease platform: NetflixDirector &amp; Producer: Manjari MakijanyWriters: Manjari Makijany &amp; Vinati MakijanyCast: Amrit Maghera, Waheeda Rehman, Rachel Saanchita Gupta, Jonathan Readwin, Shafin PatelIMDB rating: 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%My rating: 8/10Set up in 2018, the desert dolphin skatepark, the centrepiece of skater Girl, was constructed in just 45 days for this film. It now runs as a community skatepark where girls are encouraged to dream. This is Rajasthan&rsquo;s first and one of India&rsquo;s largest skateparks where hundreds of local kids skate daily.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">Atishay Jain a banker by profession and writer by choice. He is a movie-buff, passionate about movies and web series of various genres across platforms and languages.

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