new delhi the 1983 world cup win was a huge watershed moment for indian cricket tagged as underdogs the kapil devled indian team shut out the outside noise in style and lifted the coveted trophy at the mecca of cricket lords the 1983 golden journey has been turned into a feature film and bollywood star ranveer singh and all the other actors going by all reports put in a lot of hard work to turn themselves into the members of a team which shed the tag of minnows and went on to become world champions balwinder sandhu who claimed the first wicket in the summit clash against the mighty west indies in the form of gordon greenidge for just 1 spoke to timesofindiacom recently about how ranveer got into the skin of captain fantastic kapil for the rolekapil dev and ranveer singh image credit ranveer singhs facebook pagein the movie 83 you will see kapil dev not ranveer singh ranveers work ethic was fantastic his vision and characterisation of kapil dev were just amazing he is really a hard worker he worked for hours to get into the skin of kapil devs character it was tough but he accepted the challenge and did the job wonderfully he is an amazing character he worked really hard for this role he is full of energy and a nice person to be with balwinder who played 8 tests and 22 odis for india told timesofindiacomwhatever he ranveer was told by us he just surrendered and accepted everything he had more than the level of skill we were expecting from him he worked with an open mind thats the best part about him he said kapil dev and ranveer singh image credit ranveer singhs facebook pagei spent a lot of time with him we went and stayed at kapil devs place for some weeks and discussed a lot of things ranveer is a keen observer he was just observing kapil and took many tips from him be it his walking style talking smiling body language bowling batting dressing sense ranveer did everything to tick all the boxes and he did it all wonderfully balwinder who claimed two wickets in the final in 1983 greenidge and faoud bacchus said kapil and his team defeated the west indies the twotime world champions in the epic final to clinch their maiden title after posting just 183 on the board the indian bowlers wrapped up the west indies innings for 140 claiming a 43run win and the title it is a proud moment for all of us world cupwinning players of 1983 that someone has made a movie on our achievement we all achieved the 1983 glory as a team and the way kabir khan has showcased our glory achievement and the hard work we had put in is so so wonderful balwinder signed off