Director: Maneesh Bhatt
A gold medal is the goal. A betrayal and a sudden loss of hearing are the obstacles. Medal, a 2023 Hindi-language sports drama, tracks one athlete's refusal to let either stop him, and it's streaming now on K-Time with Farsi dubbing.
What is Medal about?
Rajvir Singh grows up chasing a single dream: standing on a podium with gold around his neck. Every time he closes in on it, circumstance intervenes. An accident costs him his hearing partway through the story, forcing him to rebuild his training and his sense of self at the same time. He earns a spot at an athletic academy that should be his turning point, only to be betrayed there by a fellow athlete named Angad, a wound that reshapes how he trains and who he trusts for the rest of the film. Director Maneesh Bhatt keeps the camera close on Jayy Randhawa's physical performance, letting the training montages and competition sequences carry as much narrative weight as the dialogue. At 124 minutes, the film moves briskly between setback and comeback without lingering too long on either.
Cast & crew
Jayy Randhawa leads the film in a physically demanding role that asks him to convey both an athlete's discipline and a deaf character's altered relationship to his own sport, communicating much of the character's inner state through body language rather than lines.
Context & significance
Medal was released in 2023 and holds a 6.5 rating on IMDb, sitting comfortably within the current run of Hindi sports dramas that favor grounded, single-athlete stories over ensemble competition narratives. Its 124-minute runtime keeps the focus tightly on Rajvir's personal arc rather than expanding into a broader sports-industry subplot.
Where & how to watch
Medal is available on K-Time with Farsi dubbing, giving Persian-speaking viewers a fully localized way to follow Rajvir's story. Reading this page costs nothing; watching the film itself just requires logging into a free account, part of a platform built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for the Iranian diaspora.