{"id":47540,"date":"2022-08-17T02:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/aug\/17\/nobody-gave-us-a-hope-in-hell-83-the-feelgood-film-about-indias-underdog-cricket-team"},"modified":"2022-08-17T02:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:30:14","slug":"nobody-gave-us-a-hope-in-hell-83-the-feelgood-film-about-indias-underdog-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47540","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nobody gave us a hope in hell\u2019: 83, the feelgood film about India\u2019s underdog cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Kabir Khan shares his memories of India\u2019s surprise World Cup win, and imbuing his unconventional biopic with generational weight<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, one film did a clean sweep of the awards at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iffm.com.au\/index.html\">Indian film festival of Melbourne<\/a>: 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\u2019s vastly underestimated and underfunded 1983 Cricket World Cup team who famously claimed victory against returning two-time champions the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>Khan was 15 when the final was played at Lord\u2019s cricket ground in London, but he couldn\u2019t grasp the magnitude at the time. \u201cMore than the match itself, I remember very distinctly thinking that day: why the hell has everyone gone mad?\u201d he says. \u201cWhy are the grownup relatives of my family crying? Why are people dancing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/aug\/17\/nobody-gave-us-a-hope-in-hell-83-the-feelgood-film-about-indias-underdog-cricket-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Kabir Khan shares his memories of India\u2019s surprise World Cup win, and imbuing his unconventional biopic with generational weightOn Sunday night, one film did a clean sweep of the awards at this year\u2019s Indian film festival of Melbourne: 83, an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,505,499,71,69,62,1858,414,61,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-bollywood","category-cricket","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-india-cricket-team","category-melbourne","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47541,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47540\/revisions\/47541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}