AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN IS PLAYING THE ROLE OF SARABJIT'S SISTER DALBIR KAUR
The Mary Kom director made the announcement on Twitter:
Aishwarya and @RandeepHooda in my next film SARBJIT coming soonpic.twitter.com/3jEA6isNTo
? Omung Kumar (@OmungKumar) June 23, 2015
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will play Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur, who campaigned for years to have him taken off death row.
Sarabjit Singh, an Indian resident of the Bhikhiwind village at the Indo-Pak border, was convicted as a terrorist by Pakistan's Supreme Court in 1991. After 22 years on death row, he was attacked by fellow inmates in jail and died in a Lahore hospital six days later.
Randeep Hooda, star of films such as Highway and Kick, was last seen in Rang Rasiya, a biopic of artist Raja Ravi Verma.
Aishwarya's comeback film Jazbaa will release in October, the same month that the biopic of Sarabjit Singh begins shooting in Punjab.
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Mumbai: Mary Kom fame director Omung Kumar's says that actors Randeep Hooda and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will feature in his upcoming film Sarabjit, a biopic on the late Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan.
Aishwarya Rai. AFP
"Yes Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Randeep Hooda are going to be apart in my next biopicSarbjit," Kumar said in statement.
Randeep will play Sarabjit Singh, while Aishwarya will essay his sister Dalbir Kaur Singh.
The movie will narrate the struggle of Dalbir Kaur, whose sole aim in life was to get her brother, who had been mistakenly taken to be an Indian spy, out of jail.
Sarabjit will be shot over one schedule of 70 days in Punjab, starting October 2015.
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