Vijay 69 on Netflix: Anupam Kher plays a man with an incredible dream

There is nothing very novel about elderly folks running marathons or playing other forms of sport. But that this should have formed a plot point in a film is.

- GAUTAMAN BHASKARAN

Anupam Kher starrer Vijay 69—a nearly 112-minute saga—flies largely, largely because of the actor who brilliantly portrays a man with an incredible desire to participate in a triathlon. In this competitive form of back-breaking sport—where you swim, cycle, and run on uphill tracks—Kher's Vijay Mathew, despite his tottering physique, has a never-say-die attitude, which emerges from his late wife's desire to see him clinch Gold in a race. Even a bronze would do.