As per reports Sonakshi Sinha has been roped in for the biopic of Paralympic silver medalist Deepa Malik. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games and a silver at the Summer Paralympics 2016. The athlete won 54 national gold medals and 13 in swimming, shot put and javelin throw at the international level. According to Mumbai Mirror, Sonakshi will play the character of Deepa in the silver screen.
Sonakshi Sinha first met Deepa at a 2016 event and they bonded quite well with each other. Sonakshi even shared her fangirl moment and tweeted, “Ma’am it was a fan moment for me!!! thank you for being you and radiating so much positivity! Truly an inspiration @DeepaAthlete.”
Deepa Malik also tweeted about her fangirl moment with Sonakshi.
It was earlier reported that Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment will be producing the biopic. While talking about the biopic, Ritesh had told Mumbai Mirror, “I had watched videos of her and knew that her life story was unreal, but when I met her and she let me hold her medal, the sheer weight of the silver gave me gooseflesh. As she sat in front of me, there was nothing differently-abled about her. She was empowering, a pillar of strength, and I knew that we needed to take her fight to the big screen.”
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