Doosra

Directed by

Abhinay Deo

Genre

documentary film

Country

India

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows a young girl in India as she observes how cricket changed her country. It blends fictional storytelling with real historical footage from India's political and sporting past around the year 2000. The girl and her nation both learn to challenge old expectations and find their own confidence.

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What happens

Doosra is an unreleased Indian feature film directed by Abhinay Deo. The original idea behind the film came from Chicago-based Executive Producers Masha Sajdeh and Rohan Sajdeh, which was then developed into a story and screenplay by Agnello Dias. Two Hollywood writers, Matt Graham and Zak Shaikh were also brought in during development to work on the screenplay. The film is produced by Masha Sajdeh, Steven Cantor and Jamie Schutz. Doosra is the story of how cricket changed India, seen through the eyes of a young girl. The film is a fictional narrative weaving with archival footage well-documented incidents from India's political, economic and sporting history at the turn of the millennium. Doosra is slang for ‘the other one.’ In cricketing terminology, a ball that unexpectedly goes the other way. In the film, Doosra represents a country that overcome centuries old inferiority complex to find its confidence through cricket. And also, a girl who refuses to be defined by what centuries of social tradition expect a girl to be. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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