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Saaj Raja, who was born and raised in Crawley, plays the lead in the Indo-British coming-of-age sports drama A Game of Two Halves, which hit selected cinemas in the UK, India and North America today (February 23).

Saaj, 32, who also appeared in Marvel’s Eternals in 2021 and Netflix’s Indian Hindi-language remake of The Girl on the Train in 2020, plays Sanjay, a young British South Asian student who unexpectedly ends up coaching street kids football in Hyderabad, India.

Saaj said: “It’s really a fish-out-of-water story. The story really follows Sanjay’s journey about how he has to discover

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