Breakaway

A Firsttake Entertainment production in colaboration with Telefilm Canada, CBC, Movie Central and Alliance Films. (Worldwide sales: Alliance, Toronto.) Produced by Ajay Virmani, Frank Siracusa, Don Carmody. Executive producers, Akshay Kumar, Andre Rouleau, Clayton Peters, Russell Peters, Paul Gross. Directed by Robert Lieberman. Script, Noel Baker, Vinay Virmani, Jeffrey Schecther, Matt Simmons, in the story by Virmani.With: Vinay Virmani, Russell Peters, Anupam Kher, Gurpreet "Ghuggi" Singh, Noureen DeWulf, Sakina Jaffrey, Make the most of Lowe, Camilla Belle, Akshay Kumar, Aubrey "Drake" Graham, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges.Easily minimal in the three hockey-designed features at Toronto this year, "Breakaway" hits every triumph-of-the-underdog sports movie cliche squarely round the mind. Generically watchable despite its novel hook, positing a thrilling-Sikh Toronto team inside the Canadian semi-pros, this comedy produced by co-scenarist/star Vinay Virmani is not any stretch for original "Mighty Ducks" director Robert Lieberman, or any other people for your matter. Pic opens Sept. 30 on home turf elsewhere, it'll be a smallscreen item aided with the participation of Make the most of Lowe, some well-known Bollywood thesps and celebrity artists. Youthful Rajveer (Virmani) can be a gifted hockey player with wants a specialist career. But people ambitions are overlooked by his conservative immigrant father (Anupam Kher), who needs him to operate around the trucking company he co-founded with Uncle Sammy (Gurpreet Singh). Thus, Raj must hide his progressively demanding hobby when he and also the turban-wearing teammates, named the short Singhs (simply because they all share the identical surname), decide to train for your championship responding for his or her rivals' racist taunts round the ice. They're aided by an ex-professional coach (Lowe), whose youthful law-student sister (Camille Belle) sparks with Raj. Meanwhile, Raj will get along uneasily getting a smug new yuppie workmate (Russell Peters) engaged to Raj's glamorous TV-reporter cousin (Noureen DeWulf). You will discover keep surprises away here, with father-boy crisis and reconciliation, scaly-lower quasi-Bollywood production amounts as well as the climactic large game all developing signal. Perfs change from enjoyable (stars playing youthful Punjabi figures) to broad (their elders) to indifferent (Lowe and Belle, who appear completely unengaged by course formulaic roles). Stylish-hop star Drake plays themselves in the club scene, while Akshay Kumar and Ludacris collaborate around the bombastic theme song/video that plays beneath the closing credits. Packaging is workmanlike.Camera (color), Steve Danyluk editor, Susan Shipton music, Paul Intson, Meet Bros. music supervisor, Sandeep Chowta production designer, Philip Barker set decorator, Make the most of Hepburn costume designer, Debra Hanson appear (Dolby Digital), Sylvain Arseneault re-recording mixers, Steve Promote, Paul Shubat casting, Deirdre Bowen. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentations), Sept. 9, 2011. Running time: 100 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com