Meerabai Not Out

Meerabai Not Out is a 2008 Hindi Bollywood film that stars Mahesh Manjrekar, Mandira Bedi, Eijaz Khan, and Anupam Kher.

Meera Achrekar lives a middle-class lifestyle in a Shivaji Park Chawl, along with her widowed mother, brother Manoj, his wife, Neelima, and their son, Mayank.

After the passing of their father, Anant, Manoj, who was just 18 at the time, took over the financial reins of this family, while she, herself, got employed as a math teacher with Vishwa-Prem Vidyalaya and heads the 'Meera XI' cricket team in the colony.

Things start to look up after she dramatically meets with heart specialist Dr. Arjun Awasthi, who lives in a mansion with his widower dentist father.

[5] Patcy N of Rediff.com gave the film 2 out of 5, writing "Mandira Bedi and Eijaz Khan have done their job well but Anupam Kher and Mahesh Manjrekar are wasted.

The punch-line to that self-deprecating joke is delivered by Meera again who says: 'Aur main pure kapde pahenti hoon', meaning: 'Unlike her, I am always fully dressed.'

This is possibly the only smart moment in this dumb, regressive film in which Meera's fate is left to the outcome of a cricket match between her brother and her fiancé.

Anil Kumble makes a series of short appearances in this film as the object of Meera's crush; it's the kind of embarrassing cameo that the poor chap's not likely to live down in a hurry.

"[8] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express wrote "As cricket-crazy Meera, Mandira's not half bad: her 'chashme wali seedhi saadhi' girl is believable.