Jon Hamm plays sports agent J.B. Bernstein, whose agency needs a new success. His idea is to use a televised pitching competition to find potential baseball players among Indian athletes with strong throwing arms. The search leads to Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, portrayed by Suraj Sharma and Madhur Mittal, who must learn the unfamiliar routines of professional baseball while living far from home. What begins as a creative recruitment scheme becomes a test of Bernstein's responsibility toward people whose lives he has helped uproot.
The appeal of the premise is straightforward. Transferable athletic ability might exist outside the sport's established networks. The film becomes more interesting when that insight collides with language, training, homesickness and the pressure of a highly publicized experiment.
