'Victory' aimed at cricket-mad South Asia - Rutnam
The Bollywood film Victory, based on cricket and featuring many
cricketing greats, is expected to do well in South Asia where the game
is a passion and an obsession, said producer Chandran Rutnam.
Ratnam who handled the Colombo leg of the shooting, is in-charge of
marketing of the movie in Sri Lanka.
He told IANS: "We hope to get the main market of the South Asian
region, where cricket is a passion, obsession and a religion".
He said the film would be released all over the world with English
subtitles.
The film had its grand global premiere in Colombo on Friday, a day
before the second one- day encounter between the visiting Indian and
host Sri Lankan cricket teams.
Victory, directed by Ajitpal Mangat, stars budding Bollywood actors
Harman Baweja, Amrita Rao and Gulshan Grover.
The film combines genuine on-field sporting action with international
cricket stars.
"Shot in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia, the movie is aimed
at all the cricket lovers in the world. It is about a young village boy
who wants to be a cricketer and the travails, stimulations and the
problems he faces to become a cricketer and after becoming a legend,"
Rutnam told IANS.
Rutnam described the film as a 'nice fairly tale about a cricketer in
India featuring over 40 international cricket stars, including Sanath
Jayasuriya, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Harbhajan Singh, Rohit
Sharma, Dinesh Kartik, Brett Lee, Mike Hussey, Graeme Smith and Shoaib
Malik, to name a few'.
The film, based on current happenings from the world of Indian
cricket, portrays the challenges and dilemmas that almost every aspirant
for the Indian cricket team faces and had to undergo.
A special screening is being held exclusively for the Indian and Sri
Lankan cricketers who are in town for the ongoing five ODI series, he
said.
IANS |