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August 2007 – The crew interviews Indian Open and Harvard intercollegiate
champion Anil Nayar.
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July 2007 – Director Josh Easdon travels to Australia and interviews Geoff
Hunt, the eight- time British Open champion who was the first player to break
Hashim’s record of seven titles.
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July 2007 – Grayscale llc principals Kyle Boyd and Charlotte
Angel are hired as editors and they begin reviewing the 100 plus hours of
footage.
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May 2007 – The crew returns to London to interview Andrew Shelley, WISPA
Executive Director, and squash great Jonah Barrington, six-time British Open
champion who trained with Azam Khan and now directs the Jonah Barrington Squash
Academy at the Millfield School, Sharif Khan’s alma mater.
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May 2007 – The producer and director journey to Virginia to film US great
Diehl Mateer, who reminisces about squash in the ‘50s.
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April 2007 – US Champion Victor Niederhoffer is interviewed at his Connecticut
home.
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January 2007 – Members of New York’s University Club, the site of
Hashim’s first North American appearance in 1951, gather for cocktails
and a viewing of selected cuts
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October 2006 – More fans are treated to a screening of the selected footage
at the Village Open tournament in New York City.
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July 2006 – The crew joins Hashim and his family in Denver for Hashim’s
birthday celebration and screens the footage filmed in Pakistan for his wife,
children and grandchildren.
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May 2006 - The producer and director interview 1951 US Open Champion Henry Salaun
at his home in Boston and then meet with Frank Satterthwaite, one of the first
US playing pros and author of “The Three Wall Nick.”
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March 2006 - Hashim and the crew visit Detroit, his first home in the United
States. Hashim’s old friends enjoy a screening of selected footage at
the Birmingham Athletic Club, and a few friends join Hashim for a filmed tour
of
his first homes as well as the site of the Uptown Athletic Club where Hashim
was a teaching pro.
• February 25-March 3, 2006 - Selected cuts from the
edited footage is screened at the Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions at
Grand Central Terminal.
• January 14, 2006 - The sell-out crowd of 600 at the
PACE Canadian Squash Classic is treated to a first peek of some of the footage
from the Pakistan
trip.
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December 2-22, 2005 - The crew travels with Hashim to London and Pakistan.
In London, all the venues at which Hashim played his British Open matches
are captured
on film, along with interviews with his brother Azam and other individuals
who played Hashim and knew him when he first won the British Open. A day
is also
spent filming at the Harrow School, considered the birthplace of squash. The
crew then travels to Pakistan, where the Men’s World Team Squash Championships
are being played in Islamabad. All the great Pakistani players are interviewed,
along with history professors, Air Force Marshall Noor Khan, and members of
Hashim’s
family still living in Pakistan. The crew travels through the Northwest Frontier
Province to the Afghan border and also captures the significant places in Hashim’s
life in his hometown of Peshawar.
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February 15-22, 2005 - Filming at the Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions
in Grand Central Terminal provides the filmmakers with the opportunity
to interview
all the world’s top players.