Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians

Sports and cinema are the greatest levellers. For two hours, all class barriers are broken. People could be flying in on private jets or arriving on local trains; they could be watching from five-star pavilions or from the rafters, but sitting next to each other under the floodlights, or huddled together in a darkened room, they’re united.Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians Season 1 Download.

Cricket Fever, an eight-part Netflix documentary series about the Mumbai Indians’ 2018 Indian Premier League campaign, is the coming together of two of our biggest national passions. And while it might not be as perceptive as one might have hoped, it’s certainly not the PR exercise that I was expecting.

Watch an exclusive Cricket Fever clip her.A cricket team, particularly in a country as diverse – economically and culturally – as India, is a fairly accurate capsule of our strengths and flaws, not only as a people, but as a species.Personal interests collide with larger goals as the forces of commerce invade a playground that had once been dominated by skill – like that one kid who’d control the proceedings on gullies across our country, simply because he owned the bat and the ball.To its credit, the IPL is a rather transparent in its hierarchy. Certain players are worth more than others, literally. But if there was one takeaway from the Mumbai Indians’ 2018 IPL season, it was that price tags might be misleading.

Cricket Fever plays to its strengths, and makes the best use of the unprecedented access it has been provided by, presumably, the team owners, Ambanis. They also get a lot of screen time over the course of the first four episodes.Nita Ambani, whose husband Mukesh purchased the franchise back in 2008, is often seen in players’ locker rooms, delivering pep talks ahead of matches and conducting impromptu pujas. The team’s coach, Mahela Jayawardene, is routinely seen running major decisions by her son, Akash (the current manager) – the most notable being the decision to rest star player Hardik Pandya due to injury.