He was the short, chubby kid who thought sport wasn’t for him.

Cut to today: the world knows him as the 'Great Wall of Indian Hockey' - that's Sreejesh PR

From the day his father sold the house cow to buy Sree his first goalkeeping pads, to those six heart-stopping seconds in Tokyo 2021 that made a billion people scream, Sreejesh’s story is pure cinema on turf.

On InControversial, the Padma Bhushan awardee and two-time Olympian spills on everything - surviving the national camp as a non-Hindi speaker, saving shootouts against Pakistan, balancing grassroots hockey with his new role as coach, and why “never give up” is more than just a slogan stitched on T-shirts.

It’s grit with a grin, pressure with punchlines, and goosebump moments straight from the man who turned doubt into defence and defence into glory.