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NBA Champion Jeremy Lin, ESPN Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania and Ghosts prima Utkarsh Ambudkar are each group to look successful a caller hoops characteristic documentary.
The trio are portion of Hoop Like This, which tells nan communicative of nan world’s first master Indian hoops team.
The movie explores nan affectional and beingness demands placed connected these athletes arsenic they prosecute history. India does not let dual citizenship, meaning generations of elite athletes of Indian practice person been ineligible to correspond nan nationalist squad crossed each sports. The Brown Ballers are nan first existent Dream Team of Indian hoops – 12 players who consequence their careers, reputations, and identities to rewrite nan rules of who belongs successful nan game. The doc follows them to 1 of nan world’s astir aggravated hoops tournaments connected ESPN, wherever a $1M prize is connected nan line.
Each subordinate leads a double life: an orthopedic surgeon who ne'er stopped competing astatine nan elite level, a state position proprietor who was erstwhile nan #11 classed FIBA 3×3 subordinate successful nan world and a Silicon Valley package technologist who plays master hoops successful Taiwan.
It marks nan characteristic directorial debut of Shubhangi Shekhar and is exec produced by Grammy-nominated Musician Nav, who has worked pinch Drake and The Weeknd.
In summation to Lin, Charania and Ambudkar, nan doc besides features NBA Sacramento Kings proprietor Vivek Ranadivé, ESPN SportsCenter anchor Kevin Negandhi and comedian Nimesh Patel.
The movie will motorboat pinch a three-city show premiere tally this May astatine nan Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, CAAMFest successful San Francisco, and Asian American Showcase successful Chicago.
The movie is produced by Shekhar, Kunal Patel, Pulkit Datta, Zach Galst, Tony Castle, and Roxy Hunt. Akhil Hegde of HRTGE, and Gautam Kapur service arsenic executive producers alongside Nav. UTA Independent Film Group is representing worldwide sales.
“I realized that our organization doesn’t request to look to fabrication for heroes,” said Shubhangi Shekhar. “They beryllium successful existent life, correct successful beforehand of us. It’s our work to salary attraction and show their stories.”
Nav added, “I’ve been a large hoops instrumentality since I was a kid and our organization has agelong been underrepresented astatine a nationalist level. Given wherever I americium astatine now successful my profession it felt for illustration nan cleanable clip to champion a communicative for illustration this.”
