Shahid Kapoor has signed his first biopic and would be portraying former boxing champion and Asian Games gold medalist Dingko Singh in his next project. The film would be helmed by Airlift director Raja Krishna Menon.
According to Times of India, Shahid has confirmed the news, saying Dingko’s is a story worth knowing.
Dingko is a cancer survivor, and he went through 13 rounds of chemotherapy. He has even gone on to say that his biggest win was surviving cancer and not the gold medal he won at the age of 19 at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok.Shahid Kapoor, Actor
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Shahid also shared how it was cricketer Gautam Gambhir who first lent a helping hand to Dingko after he came to know of his battle with cancer. Word got about and and as many as 13 doctors came forward to help the champion afterwards.
His life story is unbelievably crazy; it is very human and extremely inspiring. Such amazing stories of heroes need to be told.
The film will go on floors sometime around April 2019.
(Source: Times of India)
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