Balham To Bollywood

For some actors, the idea of going to India for eight weeks to act in a Bollywood epic shot in the middle of a desert would send them scurrying back to their agent asking for some other work, any other work.| Not Chris England. He runs his own cricket team (An England XI), and since he was given the part of a cricketer in a British Army team playing against a small Indian village a hundred years ago, he wouldn t just be working. He would be representing his country at his favourite sport.| This is a cricket tour diary with a difference, as Chris England charts the progress of the film from his audition in a London park to the film s release eighteen months later. The author s ability to evoke the landscape and atmosphere of India is complemented by his skill in bringing to life the bizarre and often very funny world of film making.