ESPN To Telecast Sports Documentaries For 1st Time In India  

Mumbai: ESPN Films, which produces and distributes sports films and documentaries, on Tuesday said it will be telecasting some of its critically acclaimed and award-winning sports documentaries for the first time in India.

Ramesh Kumar

These films go beyond sports and engage viewers with compelling, often unknown or previously unseen, narratives that capture the power, emotion and poignancy of sports in our lives

The series will be shown weekly on Sony ESPN and Sony ESPN HD channels and the documentaries will showcase the individual journeys of legends like Nelson Mandela, Sachin Tendulkar, Muhammad Ali, Diego Maradona, Andres Escobar, O J Simpson, among others, the company said in a statement.

"These films go beyond sports and engage viewers with compelling, often unknown or previously unseen, narratives that capture the power, emotion and poignancy of sports in our lives," said Ramesh Kumar, Vice-President, Head of ESPN India and South Asia.

Sony ESPN has shortlisted 50 films from the international archive available and has scheduled the first 13 over the next quarter. Then, it will review viewer feedback and tweak the slot and theme of movies being scheduled and plan subsequent programming accordingly.

PTI