Woody Allen, born 1 December 1935, is one of the most prolific and brilliant writer-actor-directors of modern era. However, of all his films, only ‘What’s New Pussycat’ mentions the game with some amount of significance — when Peter O’Toole visits his psychiatrist Peter Sellers, and is asked by the latter: “Cricket, is there any sex in it?” On his birthday, Arunabha Sengupta tries to simulate parts of two screenplays that might have resulted had the master made films about the game.
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On the birth anniversary of PG Wodehouse, Arunabha Sengupta pays homage to this great writer of comic fiction by penning a brand new Jeeves story.
Read MoreThe Catapulta Code : What if Dan Brown Wrote about Cricket
Dan Brown, born June 22, 1964, has never written a book about cricket and perhaps never will. However, Arunabha Sengupta inspects his series of Robert Langdon books and tries to write his novel on cricket for him.
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