Great Tamasha

On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League – cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment.

The Great Tamasha examines how a game and a country, both regarded as synonymous with infinite patience, managed to p...