Parineeti Chopra’s upcoming sports activities biopic Saina, based mostly on former world no 1 Badminton participant and Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal’s life has bought a launch date. T-Series on Tuesday morning took to Twitter to announce that the movie will launch just below a month’s time. The manufacturing home wrote, “Presenting the inspiring story of one of India’s greatest athletes, #Saina. In cinemas on 26th March.”
The long-in-the-making biopic on ace shuttler Saina Nehwal is directed by Amole Gupte. The filmmaker has helmed films akin to Stanley Ka Dabba and Hawa Hawaai prior to now.
Presenting the inspiring story of considered one of India’s best athletes, #Saina. In cinemas on twenty sixth March.@ParineetiChopra @NSaina #AmoleGupte @Manavkaul19 @eshannaqvi #BhushanKumar @deepabhatia11 @sujay_jairaj @raseshtweets #KrishanKumar @AmaalMallik @manojmuntashir @kunaalvermaa77 pic.twitter.com/hy4de3MWQS
— T-Series (@TSeries) March 2, 2021
The movie was initially alleged to function Shraddha Kapoor as Saina. The actor had aced the look take a look at and had reportedly began coaching below Indian group head coach Pullela Gopichand for over a month-and-a-half to get into the position of the badminton participant. After in depth coaching, Shraddha had began filming the film too in September 2018, but it surely was stalled as she was recognized with dengue. Then, in early 2019, T-Series had introduced that Parineeti Chopra had changed Shraddha within the biopic.
The movie’s 2020 launch needed to be pushed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, due to which all cinema-halls needed to be closed down as India went right into a lockdown.
Talking about how she was making ready for the movie, Parineeti had earlier mentioned in an announcement, “I was dying to do a sports-based film. It is a part of my personality as an actor that I have never explored, and I am so happy that I get to portray a strong and powerful girl like Saina. She has put our country on the world map, and I excited to put in all the training and hard work that comes with learning the game of Badminton and portraying Saina on screen.”
For the biopic, Parineeti has been religiously studying the sport. She had shared that she was taking part in badminton for 2 hours day by day to and coaching for an hour not less than to sport an athlete physique and angle.
