A major accusation leads to a showdown.At the team’s first tournament match, Radha aims to impress a talent scout while Manju is distracted by a cryptic poem. Their father wants to make them both Cricket stars. One of their teammates, Javed Ansari, emerges as a significant cricket talent, rivaling Manju and Radha. His brother Radha is about one year older, and their father, Mohandas “Mohan” Kumar, has been training them as cricket players from a very young age. By this time, Javed has become a con man and a failing actor, and Tommy Sir has died of a stroke not long after Radha and Manju’s selection day.Selection Day is a novel following the story of the Kumars, a family living in Mumbai, India.
Manju is fourteen years old and older brother of Radha. He is finally fired on his 27th birthday and is hired as a talent scout for the Mumbai Cricket Association. Anand receives a threat.Two teen cricket prodigies struggle against their overbearing father and a system stacked against them to realize their own ambitions and identities.Radha prepares to play in the Harris Shield semifinals. It was shortlisted along with four other writers for the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Manju does not like this game. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. Mohan's sons learn Mumbai cricket clubs value member fees over talent. Neither Radha nor Manju keep in close contact with their father. However, he is then transferred to a novelty league, batting as a non-celebrity in a celebrity cricket league. The Kumars are very poor, and they moved to Mumbai from a village in Western Ghats. Selection Day is a coming-of-age story about two talented young brothers, Radha and Manju Kumar, as they train to become professional cricket players.
But meanwhile, further friction builds between the Kumar brothers and their father. Mehta agrees to support the Kumars financially in exchange for a percentage of Radha and Manju’s future cricket earnings if they become professionals.Note: The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Adiga, Aravind. With his double life weighing on him, Manju must make a tough choice on the day of the match. When Mohan and the boys are evicted, Anand seizes a chance. Scribner, 2016. Selection Day is the story of two teen brothers trapped in the mad obsession of their compulsive father.In tracing Radha and Manju’s journey from their village in Madhya Pradesh to becoming star cricketers of a Mumbai school, the first season of Selection Day touches upon several pressing issues—parental pressure, domestic violence, India’s cricket craze, the urban-rural divide, unashamed commercialisation of education, teen angst and homosexuality. It’s a story of two brothers Radha(Yash Dholye) and Manju(Mohammad Samad). Anand gets stuck in a financial bind.With mere hours to go before Selection Day, Manju pays Javed a visit that could risk everything. When the boys are in their early teens, they attract the attention of a man called Tommy Sir, who is a talent scout for the Mumbai Cricket association. Selection Day. Mohan prays to the Hindu deity Subramanya, asking for Radha to become the best cricket batter in the world, and for Manju to become the second best. After a year of saving money from the sponsorship deal, the Kumars move from the Mumbai slum of Dahisar to the wealthy Mumbai suburb of Chembur. Selection Day is set around present day, and its main character is Manjunath “Manju” Kumar, the younger of two brothers. Episode 2 23m. Anand has some tough questions to answer.Mohan’s business takes off, while a resentful Manju has heated confrontations with Javed and Radha. Anand has an awkward encounter.Mohan makes a scene at the school after one of his sons is punished. Radha returns to Mumbai not long after fleeing, and he remains generally unemployed, likely receiving financial support from Manju. Mohan receives an unexpected business proposal.The Harris Shield final begins with a curveball that leaves everyone gobsmacked -- and the surprises keep coming. These tensions come to a head on selection day, when Manju and Radha try out for a professional cricket team. Anand takes a big financial risk.The boys start at Weinberg Academy, but Mohan mistrusts Tommy and investigates him while working at a new job. Selection Day is a sports drama web series. Watching the boys play, an infamous former coach is … The family grieved, but Mohan soon decided to focus his energies on training his sons to be professional cricket players in the hopes that they may be raised out of poverty. Manju plays in the Under-19 league for three years, and then for Mumbai’s professional cricket team for three years. Manju feels torn between loyalty to his family and Javed’s new gestures of friendship.
Selection Day AuthorAravind Adiga CountryIndia LanguageEnglish GenreFictional PublisherHarperCollins Publication date 2016 Media typePrint Pages288 ISBN978-93-5177-828-8 Selection Day is a 2016 sports fiction novel written by Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga.
Scribner, 2016. Not long after moving to Mumbai, Mohan’s wife (Manju and Radha’s mother) left the family and went off on her own. Radha gives worried Manju their aunt's phone number.Mohan's sons learn Mumbai cricket clubs value member fees over talent.