A leading Bollywood director has decided to make a film based on the mystery surrounding the death of cricket coach Bob Woolmer at this year's World Cup, an Indian newspaper reported on Monday.
Mahesh Bhatt, known for his sensitive human dramas, plans to explore the death of the coach that shook the cricket world though a love story set against the backdrop of the game, the Hindu said. The film is to be titled "Jannat" (Paradise).
"I'm definitely making the film on the entire Woolmer episode though we will not name him anywhere in the story," Bhatt was quoted by the daily as saying.
"We are using a fictional situation, but the people will see the obvious connection."
"The film is not just about the coach's death," he said. "It is a love story against the backdrop of cricket. There is betting, there is match fixing. And because it is a love story there have to be songs too."
Bhatt expects to start filming in August.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Further Doubts Over Woolmer Death
Rather inevitably, it seems that the longer the investigation into Bob Woolmer's death drags on, the shadier it all seems to get.
While there has been a distinct lack of news from officials engaged in the enquiry, suggestions that the late Pakistan coach was not murdered continue to spread.
Yesterday's Sunday Times said that Jamaican police have privately admitted that Kingston pathologist Dr Ere Seshaiah was wrong in stating that Woolmer had been strangled.
However Dr Shesaiah told the paper that he stands by his diagnosis that Woolmer died from "asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation".
A senior Jamaican policeman told the paper that it now seemed likely that Woolmer died from a heart attack induced by sickness.
"I would go for natural causes," he said. "The scene was not disturbed. If someone was strangled you would expect some resistance or fight."
In a separate development, it was also alleged that lead investigator Mark Shields travelled to South Africa last week to tell Woolmer's widow that it's possible her husband was not murdered.
The future of the investigation now seems to hinge on the results of toxicology tests.
While there has been a distinct lack of news from officials engaged in the enquiry, suggestions that the late Pakistan coach was not murdered continue to spread.
Yesterday's Sunday Times said that Jamaican police have privately admitted that Kingston pathologist Dr Ere Seshaiah was wrong in stating that Woolmer had been strangled.
However Dr Shesaiah told the paper that he stands by his diagnosis that Woolmer died from "asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation".
A senior Jamaican policeman told the paper that it now seemed likely that Woolmer died from a heart attack induced by sickness.
"I would go for natural causes," he said. "The scene was not disturbed. If someone was strangled you would expect some resistance or fight."
In a separate development, it was also alleged that lead investigator Mark Shields travelled to South Africa last week to tell Woolmer's widow that it's possible her husband was not murdered.
The future of the investigation now seems to hinge on the results of toxicology tests.
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