What I hated most about his movie

I was a kid when the original movie came out. One of the key reasons I loved the original was the character Ogilvie. I'm sure almost every boy who saw that movie related more to one of the players than the others. For me it was Ogilvie, by a mile.

This movie completely ruined that character. I didn't have a problem with them changing the character's ethnicity. My problem was that while Alfred Lutter was totally convincing as the "smartest kid in school" who knew more about baseball than everybody else, Aman Johal comes across as nothing more than a really bad actor constantly and forcibly trying to sound like "the smartest kid in school" in every scene. I never believed the character for a second.

In fairness to Aman it wasn't entirely his fault. I blame equally the writers who completely changed the character for some unknown reason, the casting director who thought Aman Johal could pull off the character, the writers who chose to not emphasize how much Ogilvie/Prem Lahiri knew about baseball and its history, and finally Johal himself who based on this performance cannot act at all.

OK, mini-rant over.