Netflix has dropped the official trailer of the documentary film titled, ‘Caught Out’. This is an upcoming feature-length documentary that targets to “blow the lid on the biggest match-fixing scandal” that has just rocked the world of international cricket.
After the two-minute trailer starts with how the greatest dream of any Indian boy of the 90s was to play for India and how it turned into a nightmare at the time the match-fixing scandal reared its ugly head.
“Sport is meant to be unscripted. If it is scripted, it takes away everything that sport stands for,” a commentator says in the trailer. The trailer then teases a journalist, who says when he started sports reporting, he never imagined he would be “breaking the lid of anything”.
The footage then cuts to visuals of a news report, which says, “The Sports Minister has ordered a CBI inquiry into the match-fixing controversy.” The visuals then depict the scandal getting bigger and bolder, as all masks fall off.
The trailer of the forthcoming documentary Caught Out is mainly a Crime Corruption Cricket show that depicts how India’s hegemony on cricket and follows the kind of controversy that become the sport to be entirely reassessed. The show described the image of the sport that has been considered to be a ‘gentleman’s game’ was sabotaged when the match-fixing scandal erupted in 2000. As you continue you will witness that the video features interviews with several sports commentators and journalists, giving their insight on the sport and the repercussions of the scandal.
Supriya Sobti Gupta is the director and the producers are Megha Mathur, the documentary will stream exclusively on Netflix. From several sources, it has been confirmed that Caught Out follows a pulsating tale that seems at the trajectory of cricket in India brimming with unexpected twists and turns whilst exploring how the cricketing fraternity fought back from one of the biggest corruption scandals.
Caught Out: Release Date
The show will hit the OTT platform on 9th March 2023.
Here is the trailer:
