INDIA: Cricket-crazy expatriate Indian shoots an underwater video to cheer team India

Record ID: 1377159

  • Title: INDIA: Cricket-crazy expatriate Indian shoots an underwater video to cheer team India
  • Date: 2nd March 2007
  • Summary: CREW WALKING TOWARDS THE RIVER MORE OF THE CREW WADING THROUGH THE WATER HOLDING INDIAN FLAG ONLOOKERS CHEERING A CREW MEMBER SWIMMING WEARING SNORKEL
  • Embargoed: 18th March 2007 17:47
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVAD1T59WA0KDP61ELZ4Y4AVU8RE
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  • Story Text: Cricket frenzy touches a new high as an expatriate Indian shoots an underwater video in an eastern river to cheer the national team. With team India's departure for the World Cup cricket frenzy has touched a new high in the country.
    Soaring expectations of the Indian fans has resulted in a unique endeavour by a 38-year old scuba diver Sabir Bux, who is shooting an underwater song to wish the national team good luck.
    The video is being shot in river Mahanadi in eastern Orissa. The song is a third attempt by Jeddah-based Bux who was encouraged by Indian media to come up with something special for the World Cup.
    "I am shooting a song under water for the impending World Cup. We want India to win the Cup this time and some of us youngsters are shooting this song especially for the World Cup," said Bux.
    Sabir had earlier produced two underwater videos in the Red Sea, and wrote a book on underwater life.
    The crew comprising Sabir's brother and few friends spends around six to seven hours daily for the shoot.
    "It is our wish to support the players who have gone for the World Cup and we will do our level best to help them," said Sikander Bux, Sabir's brother.
    On Tuesday, at a glitzy ceremony celebrities of the Indian film industry, had wished Indian cricket team, luck for the 2007 World Cup in western Mumbai.
    Sixteen national teams will vie for cricket's biggest extravaganza, being held through March-April in nine Caribbean nations. The winner will be crowned after the final in Barbados on April 28.
    India, the 1983 winners, were runners-up in the last cricket world cup in South Africa. They are placed in Group B with 1996 champions Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bermuda.
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