Nimble stickwork and old-school rollout penalty corners now serve as the basis of Reema Kagti’s Gold, a burnished, sweeping yet astutely framed period drama replaying a formative moment in Indian identity, its Dunkirk on grass: the assembly of the squad that would survive partition to win the newly independent nation’s first Olympic medal in the colonialists’ backyard of Wembley in 1948.
