A NEW EXHIBITION: Bringing alive the love for the game.
For once, the game is not about cricket. Overshadowed by the small red cherry in India, the big black-and-white leather ball is finally getting its share of the limelight.
Uniting the worlds between the black burqas of Iran to the "men in black" of Ireland, the joy of kicking the big ball into a goal seems to be universal. And bringing alive the love of the game is a new photo exhibition, "Weltsprache Fussball -- Planet Football", which is the official contribution to the art and cultural programs for the World Cup 2006.
While India might have a special affinity for the game that is more about catching than kicking, this exhibition celebrates the team spirit of the game that is at its irrational passionate best only in Bengal.
With huge pictures of people playing the game be it young boys in Israel to young women in the United States, the exhibition portrays how the game has become part of the daily lives of people across the world. Not only about the game, each picture from the celebrity shot of Marilyn Monroe kicking the ball to the boys playing football in the overgrown green fields in Cameron, the exhibition is really about bridging boundaries through the ball.
Capturing the spirit of the game as well as the flavour of the country that is playing it, the exhibition is on view at New Delhi's Max Mueller Bhavan. Kicking off the football exhibition in true soccer style this past Friday, there were films and even a cartoon that brought out how the whole world is hooked to the game. The films were the result of the Berlinale Talent Campus and part of the Berlin International Film Festival, which gave young filmmakers the chance to meet and exchange ideas with experienced experts and colleagues from all over the world.
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