Cricket Corruption Scandal Documentary ‘Caught Out’: Director Supriya Sobti Gupta Reveals Journey (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The match fixing scandal that shook the world of cricket in the late 1990s is the subject of Supriya Sobti Gupta’s Netflix documentary “Caught Out: Crime.
Corruption. Cricket.” The film is produced by Passion Pictures, which has credits including Oscar winners “One Day in September,” “Searching for Sugar Man” and “The Lost Thing,” and Gupta’s MOW Productions.
Gupta, a broadcast journalist by training, has worked for the BBC, Al Jazeera and Channel News Asia. She is no stranger to hard-hitting Indian subjects, having worked on “Mumbai Mafia: Police vs The Underworld” and “Bad Boy Billionaires: India.” “Caught Out” is her directorial debut. “This story marked a turnaround point in our history because this was a time when, while growing up, either cricketers or Bollywood stars, were your role models, your heroes, there was none other than these guys.
And just the coming out of this scandal, which is probably the biggest scandal in the world of cricket, it just dashed so many hopes,” Gupta told Variety. “We know things went wrong.
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