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This fast-paced documentary series follows a remarkable year in two contrasting schools in Pune, one of the world's fastest growing cities. November and December are great months for cricket. Clear... blue skies and rock hard wickets make for some serious competition in all corners of Pune. Poor children play "gulley cricket" in the slums and hope that, one day, they might get a place at the Pune Club, one of the city's top training grounds for young talent. We follow Rohit, who has grown up in the shadow of the great Pune Club and always dreamed of captaining their team. He's the son of a groundsman, living in servants' quarters, but once through the club's gates he plays alongside the city's elite and the sons of millionaires. His cricketing dreams are all the more important as they represent his family's best chance of escaping poverty.
This fast-paced documentary series follows a remarkable year in two contrasting schools in Pune, one of the world's fastest growing cities. November and December are great months for cricket. Clear... blue skies and rock hard wickets make for some serious competition in all corners of Pune. Poor children play "gulley cricket" in the slums and hope that, one day, they might get a place at the Pune Club, one of the city's top training grounds for young talent. We follow Rohit, who has grown up in the shadow of the great Pune Club and always dreamed of captaining their team. He's the son of a groundsman, living in servants' quarters, but once through the club's gates he plays alongside the city's elite and the sons of millionaires. His cricketing dreams are all the more important as they represent his family's best chance of escaping poverty.
| Series: | Indian school |
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| Published: | 2007 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:07 |
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| Producer: | Emma D'eath |
| Narrator: | Nikki Bedi |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/indianschool/index.html |
| Keyword(s): | Kalmadi Shamrao High School; Rewachand Bhojwani Academy |
| Subject terms: | Cricket; Education--India; Schools--India; Pune (India) |
| Production number: | JOUA457R |
| Videofinder number: | 7551 |
| Available to public: | no |
