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Gearing Up: The Fire Within

a 68 minute documentary

Gearing Up: The Fire Within is the story of a fourteen year old boy who left home - 1500 hundred miles away - at the age of eleven to come to Mumbai (Bombay) and pursue his dream of playing cricket for India - alone in a city of 18 million and commuting two hours to school everyday. The film follows his - and his teammates' - trials and tribulations as he gears up for the biggest cricketing event of the calendar year, one that is crucial to his chances of fulfilling his dreams. Gearing Up examines the passion, determination and ambition of the youth in what is now the youngest country in the world (60 % of Indians are less than 25 years old) and sheds some light on the dreams and desires of new India as it grapples with opportunity, attention and competition. On another level, the film explores the complex interplay between the individual and the team in a team sport like cricket and the very nature of sporting heroism.

Credits

Director's Biography

Sheetal has been awarded the Michael Moore Award Best Documentary Film at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Documentary KODAK Award at the 20th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award at the International Student Film Festival Hollywood for "Ordinary Lives" (her thesis documentary). She received the Grand Prize at the Fifth Short Film Competition, Beijing Student Film Festival, for her first documentary "Home and Away" a documentary showcasing the lives of Filipino migrant workers in Hong Kong. Sheetal is one of the eight students worldwide to have received the "Small Gifts Project" GRANT by Saatchi & Saatchi NYC to direct a short film in China. She has a Masters in Fine Arts degree, majoring in documentary film making, from the School Of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

Directed, Produced, Shot and Edited by: Sheetal S Agarwal

Additional Camera: Amit Kumar, Sujoy Das and Borker

Original Soundtracks:

"Ghoom Tana" by Salmaan Ahmad (Junoon Inc) and Shubha Mudgal

http://junoon.com/home2.htm

"Antaragni" by Raghu Dixit

www.raghudixitproject.com

Original Music Composed by

Ada King Wan Wong

www.adawongmusic.com

I would like to specially thank Mr. Salmaan Ahmad of Junoon Inc. and Ms. Shubha Mudgal for allowing use of the track 'Ghoom Tana' for this documentary. I am also very grateful to Mr. Raghu Dixit for allowing use of the track 'Antaragni' as a theme song for the documentary.

Sheetal shooting Aamir

during the Harris Shield Finals

Production Stills