Coming soon to a theater near you: Rinku & Dinesh Play Single-A Baseball!

Baseballing legends Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, who became world famous after beating out thousands of other Indian cricket players in the ‘Million Dollar Arm’ competition to land contracts with the Pittsburgh Pirates, are going to have their miraculous tale transformed into a Bollywood Hollywood production. All thanks to Sony Pictures executives.
Yes, even though the pair haven’t actually accomplished anything much on the baseball diamond as of yet (they’re still in Single-A) and have no guarantee of ever making a major league roster, they’re making a major motion picture. These kids better stumble upon and quell a massive conspiracy involving an army of evil basset hounds intent on wiping out the all traces of human existence soon or this movie’s going to be really boring.

Singh, 20, and Patel, 21, entering their second season with the Class A Pirates of the Gulf Coast League, are making slow and methodical progress on the field and having All-Star seasons off of it. They were invited to the White House in May as personal guests of President Obama as part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. They had their pictures taken with the president, met the D.C. United and AC Milan soccer teams and had breakfast with Indian-American actor Kal Penn. In the meantime, Sony Pictures signed a deal to make a movie based on the pitchers’ lives. Their assimilation into America culture has captured Hollywood’s imagination, with a movie scheduled to be released next summer.

Rinku and Dinesh, who obviously have no concept of race or age after proposing Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise to play their parts in the movie, also have been blogging about their adventures in the United States in extremely choppy English. For example:

Many peoples asking for more picture from us for Washington DC trip. So we doing this, and again we thanking President Obama, Kal Penn Modi, and Pittsburgh Pirates all giving us this trip of very big honor. Many peoples asking who Lisa maam — so this is picture of Lisa maam — she very good lady.

So yeah, if their baseball careers ever falter at least I know that they won’t be taking my job.
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Pirates pitching prospects from India get star treatment [USA Today]
Get Ready for Rinku and Dinesh the Movie, With Sly Stallone [Walkoff Walk]
More Pictures From DC [The Million Dollar Arm]