The Bollywood actress, Taapsee Pannu has recently done a phenomenal job in a couple of biopics like Soorma and Saand ki Aankh. However, she will be taking on her biggest challenge when she plays Indian women’s team captain Mithali Raj in her upcoming biopic, “Shabaash Mithu”, which was announced on Raj’s 37th birthday.
Mithali is arguably a legend in women’s cricket as she was one of the first ones to broke the stereotypes all over the country about girls and cricket ever since making her debut for India in 1999 at a very young age. She has led the team to two World Cup finals and is the highest run-getter for India in both ODIs and T20Is.
Taapsee Pannu has experience of playing real-life characters as mentioned before and she had earlier mentioned, “I’d say that I’d love to be part of the Mithali film, but it’s too early right now to say it’s happening. I’m in talks about it. I’m doing another”.
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However, she has acknowledged that playing a cricketer on the screen is a very difficult job as emulating the technicalities of an accomplished sportsperson isn’t easy. She recently said that she is nervous as she prepares to get ready to become Mithali on the silver screen.
During an interview with Hindustan Times, Taapsee said, “I will start preparing for the film at the start of next year because we are going to start shooting the film from the middle of 2020. I watch cricket.. but I never played the game. Mithali.. already told me that ‘I’d like to see how you play.. cover drive!’ so, I dream of cover drives now.”
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Cricketers’ biopics have done well on the Box Office with Sushant Rajput portraying India’s two-time World Cup-winning captain MS Dhoni and Emraan Hashmi playing former India skipper Mohammad Azharuddin. Also in works is the story of India’s 1983 World cup winning campaign title ‘83’, with Ranveer Singh will be portraying the role of World Cup winning skipper Kapil Dev and Deepika Padukone playing his wife, Roma.
