Delhi: After the biopic of veteran cricketers like Kapil Dev, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Mithali Raj, now a film is going to be made on the life of former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly. Ganguly himself has confirmed this and told that his character in this film is going to play the famous actor Rajkumar Rao. However, there are some hurdles in the shooting schedule, due to which the release of the film may take more than a year.
For Ganguly’s role, big names like Ayushmann Khurrana, Ranbir Kapoor and Propenjit Chatterjee were being discussed, but in the end Rajkumar Rao was finalized.
It is known that Sourav Ganguly is counted among the most successful captains of Indian cricket. Under his captaincy, India won the ICC Champions Trophy (joint winner) in 2002 and traveled to the final of the 2003 World Cup. He is the ninth highest run -scorer in ODI cricket, who scored 11363 runs. His international career has a total of 18575 runs.
Which Indian cricketers have a biopic made?
The release date of Sourav Ganguly’s biopic has not been revealed yet, but before that MS Dhoni, Mohammad Azharuddin, Kapil Dev, Praveen Tambe and Mithali Raj have become a biopic. A documentary was also made on the life of Sachin Tendulkar. Apart from this, work on Yuvraj Singh’s biopic is also going on, but his release date has not been revealed. Now the thing to see will be whether Ganguly’s biopic will be able to rule the hearts of fans or not.
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