Badhai Ho, you’ve got tested negative,” I tell film-maker Amit Ravindranath Sharma whose ambitious Maidaan promises to try to to for football what Lagaan did for cricket and Chak De! for hockey Amit, who has fully recovered from Covid, laughs nervously. “The idea is to try to to my best.”
“We have invited football players from all across the planet to return and play in our matches for Maidaan: Japan, South Korea , France, Thailand…” he says A series of matches are going to be shot for Maidaan showing India playing football with different countries.
“The players from Thailand are already here. they need been expecting me to get over Covid,” he says We started shooting from April 4. We then continue to shoot matches with the opposite countries with an opportunity between every match. it’s a troublesome schedule. We were alleged to start shooting from March 16. on the other hand who we might have thought i might be felled with Covid like this?” he asks.
Amit says the matches are going to be shot on a world scale. “There are going to be no compromise on quality. We try to form a movie that we hope India are going to be pleased with ,” he adds.
When I directed Badhai Ho, I never began to form something that might have such an impression on the audience. i’m so glad all the actors in Badhaai Ho specially Neenaji (Gupta) benefited from it.”