All you Ranveer Singh fans out there, who are eagerly waiting to watch him, donning a cricketer’s avatar will have to wait for almost 2 years from now. The makers of the Kapil Dev biopic have announced the release date and it’s 2019.
An official statement was released that read – Anil D. Ambani led Reliance Entertainment and Phantom Films in association with Vibri Media and Kabir Khan Films will release Kabir Khan’s next directorial venture starring Ranveer Singh in theatres on April 5, 2019.
Titled ‘83’, the film will chronicle India’s 1983 Cricket World Cup win under Kapil Dev’s captainship, when the Men in Blue defeated West Indies in the final to clinch their first-ever World Cup trophy.
Ranveer will essay the role of Kapil Dev in the movie.
“As a young schoolboy when I watched India win the 1983 Cricket World Cup I had no idea that from that day onwards Cricket in India will change forever. As filmmaker, for me, the journey to that win, filled with raw energy and sheer passion of that young Indian team, is probably one of the most exciting stories I have worked on. And it’s great to have Ranveer come on board to play Kapil Dev, as honestly, I could see no one else for the role, ever since I started finalising the script,” Kabir said in a statement.
The film follows how, under the captaincy of then newbie Kapil Dev, an ‘insignificant’ team became more than the sum of its parts and brought down the greatest cricketing giants, the ‘undefeatable’ West Indies. It is about that day, and all the events that lead to that moment of victory, tracking the coming of age of not just a cricketing team, but of a young nation in the eyes of the world.
The project is backed by Phantom films, co-owned by filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane and Madhu Mantena.
