A Biopic On 1983 World Cup Winning ‘Kapil’s Devils’ Soon To Hit Theatres

Apr 22, 2017 at 4:30 PM

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A Biopic On 1983 World Cup Winning ‘Kapil’s Devils’ Soon To Hit Theatres

Fans will soon be able to re-visit India’s greatest sporting moment – the 1983 Cricket World Cup Triumph – on the big screen as the Phantom Films has finalised the making of the biopic of the event that changed the cricketing culture of India.

The Production house has signed director Kabir Khan as the director of the movie who has already begun the scripting work.

PR Singh Mann, the team manager of the 1983 World Cup squad, recently was invited by Kabir Khan for a session to discuss various untold anecdotes of the world cup winning journey. Mann states that Kabir wants to show the lesser known facts related to the 1983 world cup to the cricket fans.

“Kabir wants to show that cricket is what it is today because of that victory. The media, public and commercial interests attached to the game now can be traced back to that memorable 25th day of June 1983,” the veteran told this newspaper on Friday.

“The (1983 World Cup) matches have been well covered in the press. The movie plans to reflect the several things off the field that were a part of our eventful journey. Kabir had already spoken/ interviewed most of the players in this regard,” Man Singh said.

“They were expected to go to England this summer for a bit of a shooting out there but the script wasn’t ready and Kabir Khan was busy with some of his blockbusters. His next movie Tubelight is to be released next month or so, after which he will get the script done and take this one up I feel,” Man Singh said.

A biopic is all about re-enacting the real life events. Therefore every finer detail must be taken into consideration. The movie, otherwise, wouldn’t look genuine to the viewers. Kabir Khan, who has several blockbusters to his name, also wanted to make sure that he took care of all the important aspects.

Mann reveals the amusing questions the director asked during the meet.

“He was asking me how slim or fat I was and how much hair I had on my head,” he laughs. “The meeting went non-stop for four hours and I told him a lot of things. He’s not going to sort of blend them all into a good script,” the Mann said.

The movie may be based on lives of the world cup winning cricketers but it seems they won’t get any acting gigs. The reason. Mann reveals, is very justified.

“No… Because we are 34 years older than what we were,” Man Singh is in splits before slipping “they are going to pick substitutes for this one.”

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