MUMBAI: Kabir Khan's ambitious sports drama 83' has been making noise for all the right reasons so far. The Ranveer Singh starrer sports drama is based on the 1983 World Cup, which was won by the Indian cricket team. Ranveer plays Kapil Dev, and the film will see the entire Indian cricket team of that period.
Accordingly, the makers have zeroed in on a talented bunch of actors to play the role of the cricket team members, and they are revealing their first looks one after the other. Today, Ranveer Singh dropped Saqib Saleem's first look, who is set to portray the role of Jimmy, that is, Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj.
Mohinder is known as the finest Indian batsman against express pace and made his debut against Australia at Chennai in December 1969. Interestingly, Saqib's first-look poster is the third poster revealed by the makers, and Mohinder was the one who mainly played at number 3 for India.
Moreover, in his book Idols, Indian legend and compatriot Sunil Gavaskar described Mohinder Amarnath as the finest batsman in the world.
Saqib Saleem was last seen in Race 3, and portrayed a small role of cricketer Virat Sharma in Dishoom.
Coming back to '83, before releasing the first-look poster of Saqib Saleem, the makers had unveiled Tahir Raj Bhasin as Sunil Gavaskar and south actor Jiiva as Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
Ranveer Singh's first look as Kapil Dev was unveiled a long time ago, and the actor just stunned the audience with his uncanny resemblance with the cricketer.
To portray the role with perfection, Ranveer had worked closely with Kapil Dev. The actor also stayed with the cricketer at his house in Delhi for 10 days and trained under him for the biopic.
SOURCE - E-TIMES
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