After playing reel dad to Sonam Kapoor in Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, Anil Kapoor is set to play his son Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor’s on screen father in an upcoming biopic on professional shooter and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra. While Harsh Varrdhan will play the lead, Anil has been cast as his father Apjit Bindra.
To prepare for his role, Anil Kapoor met Bindra’s family at their home in Chandigarh. He shared a picture of him and Apjit bonding and tweeted, “Great stories take time to be told! The world will see the inspirational life story of Abhinav Bindra on the big screen too! So incredibly excited for this!”
The Kapoors spent time interacting with the Bindras and talked about the film and how they could work towards making it as authentic as possible.
Sonam also chimed in saying that “it’s going to be an incredible movie.”
Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor made his Bollywood debut in 2016 in Rakeysh Mehra’s Mirzya. In September, he announced that he would play Abhinav Bindra in an adaptation of the shooter’s autobiography A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold . Directed by Kannan Iyer, it focusses on his journey to becoming an Olympic gold-medallist and the role his father Apjit Bindra played in his success. Abhinav Bindra became the first Indian sportsperson to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics, when he won the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 games, held in Beijing.
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