The match fixing scandal that shook the world of cricket within the late Nineties is the topic of Supriya Sobti Gupta’s Netflix documentary “Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket.”
The movie is produced by Ardour Photos, which has credit together with Oscar winners “One Day in September,” “Trying to find Sugar Man” and “The Misplaced Factor,” and Gupta’s MOW Productions.
Gupta, a broadcast journalist by coaching, has labored for the BBC, Al Jazeera and Channel Information Asia. She is not any stranger to hard-hitting Indian topics, having labored on “Mumbai Mafia: Police vs The Underworld” and “Unhealthy Boy Billionaires: India.” “Caught Out” is her directorial debut.
“This story marked a turnaround level in our historical past as a result of this was a time when, whereas rising up, both cricketers or Bollywood stars, had been your function fashions, your heroes, there was none apart from these guys. And simply the approaching out of this scandal, which might be the largest scandal on the earth of cricket, it simply dashed so many hopes,” Gupta advised Selection. “We all know issues went fallacious. We all know that there was a match fixing scandal. However we have no idea particulars of it. The concept was to present the viewers a entrance seat into figuring out what occurred within the scandal, give them element of the way it unraveled and what actually went down.”
The documentary is timed to coincide with the primary Ladies’s Indian Premier League Cricket match, which is at present being performed in India. It’s a huge cash match, with franchise rights offered for $572 million.
“This can be a nice movie to see what it means if you happen to go astray, what can doubtlessly occur and that there will probably be ramifications,” mentioned Gupta.
The movie is advised from the perspective of the journalists who broke the story and the officers who investigated the scandal utilizing archive footage of lots of the cricketers concerned. The most important problem Gupta confronted was that of entry.
“We reached out to cricketers throughout the board. However, as a result of there’s this aspect of proper to answer, none of them wished to talk with us. We’d have beloved to inform the story from the angle of the cricketers as properly. However we’re actually joyful that we acquired very robust entry with the investigators,” Gupta mentioned. “Clearly, it helped to have a really robust companion on board. When you will have an Academy Award profitable companion [Passion Pictures] on board, it lends that aspect of credibility.”
“Caught Out” streams on Netflix from March 17.
