why choose an already overhyped game as the subject for your film victoryn cricket is overhyped because its our lifeline and even bigger than our national sport hockey i love underdog stories it was my desire to come up with a film that would inspire incidentally theres never been a film that tells the story of a player victory tells the journey of a cricketer from a small town in jaisalmer the film is not based on anyones charactertheres brett lee in the filmthe script was sent to him and two days later he was in mumbai with his manager he hugged me saying that it was the best cricket story ever and once he was on board roping in the other cricketers was easy i didnt want 11 strangers in this game and the real streak comes in with the 60 cricketing superstarswill you be delivering any message through itim not here to sermonise but show that cricket isnt an individual sport theres a pride that comes from playing for ones country and the nation lives its dreams through these 11arent you apprehensive about comparisons with iqbalno where iqbal ends victory begins unlike iqbal this is the story of a team india cricketerharman plays the leadit was manmohan shetty who indulged me to take up the directorial hat after he heard the script it was decided that having a star would be better as this is an expensive film but my logic was i wanted an actor without any image shetty was the producer of love story 2050 i saw the rushes of the film and realised that harman was a good actor in order to see harmans dedication i got my good friend pravin amre to train him daily for two hours after the first two weeks harman started training for five hours with him and then the hours extended as he started calling his friends over to play the game please continuetony greig and dean jones have done the commentary in victorys climax i hadnt mentioned harman to them but surprisingly while playing the video clips for their dubbing tony said ive never seen this cricketer before he thought that harman was a team india cricketerso whats nextas of now my plate is empty but ive been approached by a mainstream labased studio after watching the trailer of victory on the net they are interested in remaking the film in english and cricket will obviously be replaced by a popular american sport i do not know as yet they want to buy the remake rights and have proposed if i could direct this film too