Marking the 38th anniversary of India’s iconic 1983 World Cup win, publishing house Opus India has introduced a limited edition luxury book titled the “1983 World Cup Opus”.
The 1983 World Cup Opus was announced amongst the presence of cricketing legends Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath, Kirti Azad, Madan Lal, Yashpal Sharma, Sunil Valson, Balvinder Sandhu, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sandeep Patil, Syed Kirmani, Roger Binny and PR Man Singh. Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, and Krishnamachari Srikkanth joined over a video call.
Karl Fowler, Global CEO Opus, Zenon Texeira, Creative Director Opus and Amit Bhagchandka, India CEO & Publishing Editor represented the luxury publishing house.
A truly limited edition book, the 1983 World Cup Opus will feature the untold stories and journeys of all 14 players and their manager. A collector’s dream, the 1983 World Cup Opus will have a limited print run of just 1983 copies and will be available in 5 versions:
1.) Champions of Champion Edition
2.) Champions Edition
3.) Player’s Edition
4.) Captain’s Edition
5.) Classic Edition
The book will consist of archived unseen images of matches, statistics and excerpts from some of the most influential people from Cricket as well as other walks of life. Each individual will share their perceptions of this historic moment and how it impacted their own lives – the ecstasy, emotions, celebrations and the pride of being an Indian. The opus will also feature anecdotes from 100+ most prominent Indians from the field of sports, business, arts, entertainment and politics.
Knitted in nearly +150,000 words by some of the most renowned cricket writers like Rajdeep Sardesai, Vijay Lokpally, Ayaz Memon, R Kaushik and others, over +2000 images from archives, personal collections of the team and their families, artistic impressions from Opus’ creative team spread across some 830 pages and weighing over 30kgs, the 1983 World Opus is bespoke storytelling at its best.
To be released later this year, pre-bookings for the opus are now open, here: www.thisisopus.com.
