Picture of cricket on the pitch

On-screen cricket innings ranged from 'Ek Nazar Mein Dil Bechara Ho Gaya' LBWB in Subodh Mukherjee's 'Love Marriage' (1959) to Dev Anand's 'Ek Nazar Mein Dil Bechara Ho Gaya' addressed to Mala Sinha sitting in the stadium, to 'Avval Number' (1990) starring, produced and directed by Dev Anand himself. There are many films of him and Aamir Khan in the film Cricket. In 'Love Marriage' the one-sided pictorial of Dev Anand batting is a big joke. Cricket gained prominence on the silver screen with the Aamir Khan Productions film Lagaan (2021) directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. In fact, it's kind of made up. One and a half hundred years ago, in a remote village in Gujarat, an impromptu pastoralist proposed a cricket match to get the British 'lagan' (agricultural rent) waived. As cricket is our natural game, the ego of the English is heavy, while these shepherds learn cricket from scratch. Overcome many obstacles and win by working h...