The street
is your court.

A campaign shoot for the launch of Cult.sport — the standalone sports retail brand born from Cult. Stores opening across India, each one filled with images of sport as it really lives: on every gully, every corner, every street that has ever become a playground.

Client
Cult.sport
Format
Campaign Stills
Year
2023
Shoot Direction
Amal Rajendran
Production
Verrocchios Workways
01 — The Campaign Campaign Stills · 2023
02 — The Concept Brief & Idea

The Launch

Sport doesn't wait
for a stadium.

Cult.sport was launching as a standalone retail brand — stores opening across India, each one a dedicated space for sport. The brief was to create campaign imagery that captured what sport actually looks like in India: not polished, not synthetic, not stadium-bound. Raw, urban, and everywhere.

Every gully is a cricket pitch. Every open wall is a goal post. Every patch of ground is a court. The campaign was built on that truth — sport as a street-level, everyday act that belongs to everyone, not just the ones with equipment and stadiums.

The Shoot

Real locations,
real athletes.

Directed on location across real urban environments, the shoot put athletes and sport into the actual streets — not sets built to look like streets. Every frame was composed to feel like you had just turned a corner and found a game in progress.

The photographs went directly into every Cult.sport store at launch — covering walls, filling the retail space with the energy and physicality the brand stands for. The store didn't just sell sports gear. It felt like the street itself had walked inside.

03 — Credits The Team
Client
Cult.sport
Creative Direction
Cult Internal Team
Shoot Direction
Amal Rajendran
Photographer
Mohammed Rafi
Production
Verrocchios Workways
Format
Campaign Stills