Lorai: Play to Live (2015): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2015, Lorai: Play to Live is a drama film directed by Parambrata Chatterjee, running about 155 minutes.

What it’s about. Sports minister of Westbengal sends an alcoholic retired football player (Prasenjit Chatterjee) to a politically disturbed (by Maoist activities) village of Purulia to setup a football team. The intention was to build a good activity among the poor villagers and turn their attention to football. One day, the coach is kidnapped by the Maoist (leader Parambroto Chatterjee) and rescued later. Coach decides to stay back with the villagers and teach them football, however, the ministry decides to stop the football project and the cold fight begins between the sports minister and the football coach. Sports minister decided to organize a football match between the village team vs Kolkata akadosh. If the village team could perform well government would retain the project. In the match village team perform in a extraordinary way and able to retain the project.

Who’s in it. Lorai: Play to Live stars Prosenjit Chatterjee as Sebastian Ryan, Payel Sarkar as Anuradha, Indrasish Roy as Deep Narayan Chowdhury and Koushik Kar as Chipla, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 7.0/10, Lorai: Play to Live has been warmly received by audiences.

Where to watch. In IN you can stream it on VI movies and tv. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Lorai: Play to Live page.

If you liked it. Fans of Lorai: Play to Live tend to enjoy The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Schindler's List and The Godfather Part II.