We're impressed...Shah Rukh will put in three months prep for Salute.

Shah Rukh Khan is clearly not taking his
upcoming Rakesh Sharma biopic lightly.
Post a series of meetings with the Salute
producers, he has apparently locked his
dates for the film, which tees off shooting
September onwards.
However, before filming can commence, the
actor will invest a full three months in
prepping for his role as the first Indian to
fly into space!
It was revealed that the superstar would
wrap up Zero by April. He is touted to begin
the shoot of the Sidharth Roy Kapur
production Salute by September, and will
shoot for close to two to three months to
wrap its first schedule. The next schedule of
Salute will begin from Jan 2019. However,
an official confirmation in this regard is yet
to be made.
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SRK will be devoting his prep time to doing
his own research with his team and will
fine-tune the nuances of his role as Rakesh
Sharma, who became India's first man in
space in April 1984. Incidentally, the biopic
had earlier been titled Saare Jahaan Se
Accha which was Rakesh Sharma's
response to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,
when she asked him how India looked
from outer space.
Incidentally, Aamir Khan has originally been
pegged to play the lead role in Salute.
However, he backed out of the project due
to other professional commitments, namely
the series on the Mahabharata he is
reportedly working on. However, he had
played a key hand in convincing SRK to
come on board and agree to play the only
Indian to travel to space, Rakesh Sharma.
Aamir had personally met Shah Rukh and
asked him to star in the film. He had
strongly recommended the Rakesh Sharma
biopic to Shah Rukh as a script worth
putting in that extra effort for.
It will be most interesting to see how
director Mahesh Mathai (Broken Thread,
Bhopal Express) will translate the inspiring
story of Rakesh Sharma on film. Sharma is a
former Air Force Pilot who flew aboard the
Soyuz T-11 in 1984, as part of a joint
program between the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Soviet
Intercosmos space program.
The ex-astronaut, now 68, had spent 7 days
21 hours and 40 minutes in space. Till date,
he remains the only Indian to have travelled
to space.
It is heartening to see Shah Rukh give this
biopic the attention it deserves.

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