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Where life, moment to moment, is not guaranteed. Crothers introduces us to a culture where human life is cheap. The Queen of Katwe, by Tim Crothers, former Senior Sports writer at Sports Illustrated, is a gritty inspiration. She's a child of Katwe - one of the worst slums in the world. And she lives at the bottom of the pecking order of Uganda itself. Phiona Mutesi is from Uganda, a country at the bottom of the pecking order of African nations. Certainly the best chess players have the best pedigree.
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Certainly she must have the best of coaches, the best education, and the best backing to be as good as she is. Her command of the game at such a young age certainly had people talking. Only in her teens, she sat across the board from experts several years older, yet she played with an intensity and instinct that had more experience players struggling to keep the upper hand - and not always succeeding. Soon after, she travelled to Russia to participate in the Chess Olympiad, the most prestigious event in the Chess world. At 11, she was her country's junior champion, at 15 a national champion. Writes Kathleen Edwards, on Amazon, “Phiona Mutesi is one of the best chess players on earth. First we had an article on Phiona Mutesi, then a book, then a short documentary and finally a docu-feature. Sadly, there are too many wrong moves in the film that do no credit to the much-lauded maker. On the other hand, Mira Nair, the Orissa-born, Delhi-raised Uganda-settled Indian film-maker is too much of a veteran, and making a biopic on the incredible story of a chess prodigy who rose from the slums of the under-developed African nation to grab international headlines, should have proved a routine exercise. Likewise, the debutant actress would have had to get familiar with the characteristics of the medium, dance being the closest she had come to performing. And I want to continue with acting and also dancing.” Madina’s native tongue is Luganda, and she had to work very hard to speak the English required for the film. She replied, “I want to go back to school. Madina Nalwanga, the Ugandan teenager who plays the titular role in The Queen of Katwe, was asked after the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) what she would like to do next. Siraj Syed reviews The Queen of Katwe: Chess champion comes from Ugandan slums