Director: Sharan Sharma
Mr. & Mrs. Mahi is a 2024 Hindi-language sports drama directed by Sharan Sharma that sets an intimate portrait of a young marriage against the high-pressure culture of competitive cricket.
What is Mr Mrs Mahi about?
Two people who happen to share the same nickname, Mahi, are brought together through an arranged marriage and slowly learn how differently each of them relates to ambition. Mahendra once hoped to represent his country on the cricket field, a dream that never worked out and continues to weigh on him as he runs his family's sporting-goods shop. Mahima trained and works as a doctor, carrying quieter goals of her own. When Mahendra recognizes an unusual, untrained talent for the game in his wife, he begins to pour his own unfulfilled aspirations into coaching her toward serious competition. The story follows how that choice reshapes their partnership, weighing the pull of shared dreams against the risk that one person's longing can quietly overwrite what the other truly wants for herself.
Cast & crew
Rajkummar Rao plays Mahendra and Janhvi Kapoor plays Mahima, the two leads whose marriage and competing ambitions anchor the film. The supporting ensemble includes Kumud Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Zarina Wahab, Yamini Das, Arjit Taneja and Purnendu Bhattacharya, who fill out the couple's families and the world of coaches, relatives and teammates around them. The performances center on the everyday texture of a middle-class household adjusting to an unconventional decision, rather than on spectacle.
Context & significance
The film was produced in India and runs 139 minutes, presented in the drama, romance and sports-drama space. It carries an IMDb user rating of 5.9. Cricket serves as the film's central backdrop, reflecting the sport's broad popularity across the country, and the narrative uses training, selection and competitive play as the framework through which the couple's relationship is tested. Director Sharan Sharma structures the story around domestic scenes and practice sessions rather than large stadium set pieces, keeping the focus on the two central characters and the choices they make. The picture belongs to a wider tradition of Indian films that pair a personal relationship story with the demands of professional sport.
Where & how to watch
Mr. & Mrs. Mahi is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login; reading this page requires no account. A Persian (Farsi) dubbed track and Persian subtitles are both available, so viewers can watch in dubbed form or follow the original audio with Farsi subtitles. The K-Time interface is built for the Iranian diaspora with a Farsi-first experience, making the title easy to find and play for Persian-speaking audiences.