Watch Sons of the Soil : Jaipur Pink Panthers

The series approaches the final leg of the Pro Kabaddi league season as the team arrives in their home city of Jaipur. The team is overwhelmed to see the support and the love they receive from the people of Jaipur. With a huge fan following and much required emotional support, the team musters courage to stay strong and bounce back with the same form they had started off the tournament with. They try to keep their spirits high despite the fact that their hopes to qualify for the playoffs are hanging by a thread. But to everyone's disappointment, the team sinks further and COO Bunty Walia loses his patience with Captain Hooda. On the other hand, Abhishek is realizing he cannot do much from the sidelines and is equally saddened.

Sons of the Soil travels to the deep rural interiors of the state of Haryana and features great stories from the villages of Kathura and Rindhana that have been emerging as the hot bed for producing some of the finest Kabaddi players in the country. One such budding star Deepak Narwal, who is also one of the lead raiders for the Jaipur Pink Panthers hails from this village. His father and uncle were a part of the team that got India its first ever gold medal in 1990. But the pressure to maintain the legacy and family name does not deter Narwal who is yet to make a mark for himself

The episode starts with E. Prasad Rao, the technical director of the Pro Kabaddi league who has been associated with the league since its inception. Fondly known as "Kabaddi Rao" he would have never imagined how the sport of Kabaddi has received so much recognition and has become a global phenomenon that it is today. He talks about the journey of most of the players in the Pro Kabaddi league who come from the simple, village life with humble beginning and go onto becoming household names across the country. On the team front, Coach Srinivas Reddy begins to feel that the team was lucky to have a great start but somehow the

The Jaipur Pink Panthers start their season with a bang and an unexpected performance by the young lads that leaves everyone surprised. With spirits running high, the team arrives in Mumbai where Abhishek who is like a father figure to these players makes sure they are pampered well since they are in his city. The boys get a taste of the glamorous life as Abhishek hosts them by taking them to Hakim Aalim - a Bollywood celebrity hairstylist for a quick makeover and a charity football match between top Bollywood celebrities and Soldiers from the Indian Army. Back on the game front, each of the players practice hard to confirm their spot in the playing seven but not everyone is left happy. The players pay a visit to Abhishek's father and Bollywood legend Mr. Amitabh Bachchan who is superstitious about not watching a game live in the stadium since they have always lost when he has. The team convinces him to come watch the game this time and hopefully change history. Tension starts to build when one of their key all rounders falls sick and needs to be hospitalized. Coach Reddy has to take some tough calls at this point with regards to team structure while captain Deepak Hooda has to be the leader when the team needs him the most. Meanwhile one of the most experienced players of the lot, Nilesh, gets a surprise visit from his parents who have seen Nilesh make it big, after being raised in the slums of Mumbai and going onto become one of the star players of PKL. As the tournament progresses, Jaipur Pink Panthers announce their arrival by displaying unprecedented form, forcing their competitors to pull up their socks. While the team is on a high with a happy and satisfied owner, everyone in the team is starting to believe that it might just be the beginning of the rise of the Jaipur Pink Panthers

Episode 1 largely focusses on establishing the story of the team, the key characters in the story and what's at stake for each one of them. The key characters in this episode are Abhishek Bachchan