‘Bandon Mein Tha Dum’: Why It Was An Important Story

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Got it! Jun 27, 2022, 06:51am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A poster of ‘Bandon Mein Tha Dum’. VOOT SELECT The digital wing of Viacom 18, VOO VOO T, has mostly dabbled in thrillers when it comes to originals from the platform. Therefore, it was a huge leap when they announced the sports docu-series, Bandon Mein Tha Dum The Baap of all Fightbacks .

The Head of SVO VO D and International Business at Viacom18 Ferzad Palia talks about their new sports docu-series. India’s victory in the 2021 Border Gavaskar Trophy Test Series, especially the climax of the series, had all the elements of dramatic cinema. How the Indian team endured the worst humiliation, lost all their star players and bounced back after being completely written off, was the perfect recipe for a revenge-redemption-Cinderella-underdog story.

Bandon Mein Tha Dum taps into the potential and came out earlier this month. Elaborating on the importance of the story being told, Palia says, “It is not like the World Cup. Winning world cup (India won the cricket world cup in 1983 when Kapil Dev’s team bagged the trophy, and then again in 2011 with MS Dhoni as the team’s captain) or reaching the finals were different kind of events.

This is the equivalent of winning the world cup, but in the test arena. Of course more people know about the world cup, than the Border – Gavaskar trophy. It is important for the story to be told.

It has all the elements of a thriller and we aim for it to cut across nationalities and age bars. It is an underdog story – something most people are interested in it. ” Talking about the genre being new for the platform, he adds, “We have always experimented, be it reality or a 24 hour before TV format with linear content or 24 hour channel – we gave shows such as Bigg Boss and Bigg Boss OTT .

Experimentation is the heart of VOOT. And, this was a story that needed to be told. In fact, Bandon Mein Tha Dum is less of an experiment and more of a good story that had to be told.

We are certain that it is unique and the audience will be gripped much as they would be in a good fiction show. ” The series shows behind-the-scenes footage and also has candid conversations with Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Siraj, Rishabh Pant and Hanuma Vihari, their coaches, as well as journalists who covered the series. MORE FOR YOU ‘Dune’ Tops Foreign Box Office With Promising $77M Cume ‘Shang-Chi’ Box Office: Marvel Movie Tops $360M Worldwide 4 Series Coming To Netflix In October That Are Worth The Binge (The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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