I must admit that the only reason I bought this book was because I saw it for just �2.99 last Thursday when I was shopping in Tesco (incidentally, this seems to have been an instore only deal). Well the subject matter interested me – an Englishman making a Bollywood epic, and it was serialised on Radio 4 earlier this year.
So for a small investment I bought a copy, and I haven’t regretted it at. It’s written in a very easy style, and details in a cricket tour diary style, the film-making process of Lagaan, a massive Indian movie about a village cricket side who are novices at the game taking on the might of the British army team in the 19th century.
I guess that it’s clear that Chris England has read plenty of Bill Bryson books and the like, but it means you can race through the book, while learning plenty about the culture.
I also really want to see the film – all three and three quarter hours of it!