“Cricket Agar Dharm hain Toh Lords Benares
Cricket Agar Mazhab hain toh Lords Mecca”
These words echo the spirit of a young Indian cricket fan. The passion with which he follows Cricket and looks forward to his Mother India’s victory in Prudential Cricket World Cup 1983 is the very basic essence of this film. This jovial person is known as Maddy and is accompanied by his three other friends namely Parvez, Anand and Sandy.
Dheet Patangey is all about loving your nation. Love for your nation can be expressed in various forms and this feature film showcases that love through India’s Most followed sport “Cricket”. Four friends embark on a journey to witness India’s victory at Lords at the 1983 Cricket World Cup which they never even imagined they would be able to in their wildest dreams. But after all as they say it’s pure passion and love for your nation which makes you go for the unachievable. These four friends in search of living and achieving their dream travel through diverse regions of our beautiful nation from Goa to Kashmir to Chambal to finally arrive at Lords.
An emotional journey where we see a medical impediment making them ponder over their life and thus begins their quest to accomplish that one thing which they always wanted to do. The film will also make you travel to the 2011 Cricket World Cup which India won where we again see these friends but not the four of them but instead only three. The answer to one missing lies in the emotional journey which this film makes one go through.
Directed by Ravi Adhikari, son of Late Shri Gautam Adhikari, an Indian Media Thespian having his name etched in the Gusiness Book of World Records for having single handedly directed more than 3000 television episodes, this is his son’s directorial debut. This film stars young bunch of enthusiastic actors namely Shivin Narang, Hardik Sanghani, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Ali Murad who have proved their mettle in the past with noteworthy performances.
Produced by Sri Adhikari Brothers, a pioneer in the field of Indian Media and Entertainment industry the group is credited with many firsts to their name. The Group were the first one to commercialise Doordarshan back in the 80’s and went on to create India’s first and World’s most watched humour brand “SAB TV”. A three decade old Indian Media conglomerate also runs India’s only premier publication on governance and policy “Governance Now”.
The film is of 1 hour and 52 minute duration and houses content which can be comfortably viewed by families watching together. It celebrates the spirit of life, cricket and patriotism.
