1983-Facts and Fiction

The Jimmy smile

Saqib Saleem said in an interview, "There were days when I would just stand in front of the mirror, trying to smile like Jimmy sir."

I can only say, you succeeded something extreme. I just felt like taking screenshots and putting all the special Jimmy-smile moments of the movie (: Or any expression, really, because there are many.

Makes me smile, and will make an 83Head smile, too.

1) Encouragingly nodding at Kapsie when the latter hesitates after his, "Tomorrow match...very important," and trying not to smile but failing after Kapsie's, "Like people says, taste the success once, tongue wants more." Then smiling and clapping after the 'team meeting is over' and smiling and singing along with Cheeka's, "I don't know what you say."

Jimmy's affection and indulgence for Kapil is very clear in the smile in the second picture.

2) Jimmy and Kapil going to buy the washing soda, Kaps--childishly--bending down to make sure they've taken exactly 1 pound, not any more or less.

Have you ever seen a smile as indulgent as the one in the third picture?

3) Jimmy smiled after hitting bowlers for boundaries. Sweetly, not terrifyingly, and that's somehow more terrifying than snarling teeth [real Jimmy did the same--Kabir Khan told Saqib, "This man's aggression is in his smile"]