India’s new golden boy is Neeraj Chopra. Not only is he the top javelin thrower in the world, he is also extremely photogenic. And everyone has noticed. Stories such as his make great fodder for Bollywood movies. I don’t use the word ‘biopic’ deliberately because the liberally embellished stories and highly dramatised narrative usually bear only a fleeting resemblance to reality. People on social media are already dreaming up stories and casting people in a possible Bollywood film on the life of Neeraj Chopra.
The tweeple have certainly woken up to the fact that this is a face that could launch quite a few movies.
Many tweeple thought this – it’s quite likely that more than one filmmaker also had this thought.
He can play himself suggested the tweeple.
There is in fact a striking resemblance between the Indian gold medal winner and Bucky of the MCU played by Sebastian Stan.
Raj-ni, Nee-raj – sounds similar when chanting the name!
It’s a story waiting to be told, feel social media users.
It is quite likely that Bollywood filmmakers want to make a movie based on Neeraj Chopra and that they are probably already knocking on his door for rights to do that.
Bollywood’s ‘Mr. Khiladi’ is known to make a lot of patriotic films and semi-biographical films. Playing as a soldier-athlete would be right up his street.
Neeraj Chopra is 23. Akshay Kumar is 53. Knowing Bollywood, they may just manage somehow.
We have had athletes join films before – Dara Singh did it.
Boxer and silver medal winner Vijender Singh, Bronze Medal winner in tennis Leander Paes, cricket players Vinod Kambli and Ajay Jadeja also joined films – briefly and quite unsuccessfully.
This ‘script’ for a possible film with all the Bollywood masala and melodrama, plot twists and turns, heroic feats is ready! This Facebook post by Maurya Mondal about a possible Bollywood film about Neeraj Chopra went viral. Take a look. It sounds very, very Bollywood-esque.
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