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Rolling with the Punches
The Morning Standard
|December 28, 2025
By turning the spotlight on women boxers, fimmaker Avantika Meattle uses her craft to create space for sports that rarely find mainstream media attention
One morning in Paris, as the Olympic crowds thundered around her, photographer-filmmaker Avantika Meattle found herself asking her son a simple question: "Who's your favourite Indian footballer?" He couldn't think of a single name. "We want medals for the country but don't even know our sportspersons beyond a handful of prominent names," she realised.
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