Meerabai Not Out

Cast: Mandira Bedi, Anupam Kher, Eijaz Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar

Director: Chandrakant Kulkarni

Producer: Rangita Pritish Nandy, Pritish Nandy (Pritish Nandy Communications)

Music: Sandesh Shandilya

Release date: December 5, 2008

Meera Achrekar, a mathematics teacher at Vishwaprem Vidyalaya, has been a happy single for quite a while now. The great love of her life has been, and will always remain, cricket and cricketer Anil Kumble.

The meticulous number cruncher is, despite not being the classic eye-candy-teenage-fantasy-fodder, a huge hit in class. And that's because Meera, unlike most teachers of her school, is more fanatical about cricket than even the school cricket captain!

Living with her family in their small home in a Mumbai chawl, Meera was initiated into Wankhede Stadium by her brother, Manoj.

Manoj Anant Achrekar played cricket at the Ranji Trophy level. Sadly, middle class making-ends-meet economics got the better of the impressive Maharashtrian leggie, and passion had to make way for responsibility. Mahesh is today a cricket cynic. While Meera bunks classes and fights for season tickets to every cricket match that is played at Wankhede Stadium, Mahesh even steers clear off cricket scores!

While the folk at Bhaktiyog Society cast aspersions on her craze towards the game, the bigger problem that worries the Achrekar family is Meera's still-single status. Love suddenly blossoms with heart-specialist Dr Arjun Sachdeva and Meera realises that perhaps there is more to life than praying for Team India and Anil Kumble!

However, in between this fabulous exchange of text messages, Valentine's Day outings and walks along Chowpatty, she confesses to Arjun that she is already married to cricket!

So, while the maiden's heart beats for Anil Kumble and India's fortunes, the more important question is: will Meera be able to commit to her non-striker beau and keep her prospective father-in-law at bay?