: 83, an unconventional sports biopic and one of the best Bollywood crowd-pleasers in recent years. The comedy-drama won best film, best director for the renowned writer-director Kabir Khan and best actor for Ranveer Singh, who portrays Kapil Dev, the captain of India’s vastly underestimated and underfunded 1983 Cricket World Cup team who famously claimed victory against returning two-time champions the West Indies.
“People sometimes ask me: ‘Would you want to do 2011?’” Khan said, referring to India’s second World Cup win in Mumbai. “And I’ve often said that 2011 is not really a story. In 2011 we were the favourites. We were playing at home, we had lots of superstars in our team, and we went ahead and won. It’s 1983 which is a story, because nobody in the world gave us a hope in hell.”
“That was the greatest responsibility for me, because this innings has taken such a mythical proportion in people’s imagination,” Khan said. To recreate that match, he not only visited the, but also interviewed locals in the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, who witnessed the game first-hand. For the first time, cricket fans can watch 83 to see a version of that game.
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