Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket is a true-crime documentary directed by Supriya Sobti Gupta.
As they say in the first few sentences… they are villains, not heroes. And we are in India, the country of cricket, a sport that millions of people follow, and which is something like the Champions League for Europeans or the NFL for Americans.
And of course, behind all this sport, there is this dark world that this excellent documentary shows us.
About the Documentary
Behind a sport followed by children there is a whole dark world, plagued by cheating and which is full of violence, the world of betting that – as in The Last Boy Scout – affects professional sports and stains its reputation with dirt.
If you want to know more about the dark side of cricket in India, this is the perfect documentary, one which gives us an excellent insight into what goes on...
As they say in the first few sentences… they are villains, not heroes. And we are in India, the country of cricket, a sport that millions of people follow, and which is something like the Champions League for Europeans or the NFL for Americans.
And of course, behind all this sport, there is this dark world that this excellent documentary shows us.
About the Documentary
Behind a sport followed by children there is a whole dark world, plagued by cheating and which is full of violence, the world of betting that – as in The Last Boy Scout – affects professional sports and stains its reputation with dirt.
If you want to know more about the dark side of cricket in India, this is the perfect documentary, one which gives us an excellent insight into what goes on...
- 3/17/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
The match fixing scandal that shook the world of cricket in the late 1990s is the subject of Supriya Sobti Gupta’s Netflix documentary “Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket.”
The film is produced by Passion Pictures, which has credits including Oscar winners “One Day in September,” “Searching for Sugar Man” and “The Lost Thing,” and Gupta’s Mow Productions.
Gupta, a broadcast journalist by training, has worked for the BBC, Al Jazeera and Channel News Asia. She is no stranger to hard-hitting Indian subjects, having worked on “Mumbai Mafia: Police vs The Underworld” and “Bad Boy Billionaires: India.” “Caught Out” is her directorial debut.
“This story marked a turnaround point in our history because this was a time when, while growing up, either cricketers or Bollywood stars, were your role models, your heroes, there was none other than these guys. And just the coming out of this scandal, which is...
The film is produced by Passion Pictures, which has credits including Oscar winners “One Day in September,” “Searching for Sugar Man” and “The Lost Thing,” and Gupta’s Mow Productions.
Gupta, a broadcast journalist by training, has worked for the BBC, Al Jazeera and Channel News Asia. She is no stranger to hard-hitting Indian subjects, having worked on “Mumbai Mafia: Police vs The Underworld” and “Bad Boy Billionaires: India.” “Caught Out” is her directorial debut.
“This story marked a turnaround point in our history because this was a time when, while growing up, either cricketers or Bollywood stars, were your role models, your heroes, there was none other than these guys. And just the coming out of this scandal, which is...
- 3/16/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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