Kolkata: The shooting of Sourav Ganguly’s biopic is going on in full swing. The title of the film has not been finalized yet, but the tentative title is ‘Dada: The Sourav Ganguly Story’. As this international star is Bengali, his biopic will feature many Bengali actors and actresses. It was already known that Aparajita Auddy will be seen in the role of Saurabh Gangopadhyay’s mother in this film. And this time it came to light, who is playing the role of Sourav’s father?
Bengali actor as Sourav’s father
It was once rumored that Byoman Irani might be seen in the role of Sourav’s father. But it is known that Byoman is not Irani, but a Bengali actor will play the role of Sourav’s father. Saswata Chatterjee will be seen playing the role of Chandi Gangopadhyay. The actor has already made his mark in Bollywood. He has acted in one notable Hindi film after another. And this time, in Sourav Ganguly’s biopic, Shaswat is playing an important role. The shooting of the movie has already started. Basically the movie will be shot in Mumbai and Kolkata. The sets of Sourav’s house were built in Mumbai. Director Vikramaditya Motwane has already come to Kolkata and has been doing Reiki for quite some time.
Long discussion about casting, finally Rajkumar Rao
After a long delay, the shooting of this movie has started. Several meetings were going on with Sourav Gangopadhyay with the production company and the director. Cto take It took a long time to finalize the casting. It was heard that Saurabh himself wanted Hrithik Roshan for his character. But since the script was not finalised, Hrithik could not be spoken to at that time. Speculations were also made about Ranbir Kapoor. But in the end the name of Rajkumar Rao was finalized. Rajkumar has already spent some time in Kolkata for this film. Sourav tried to get to know Gangopadhyay more closely. Rajkumar also changed his look for shooting. He also has long shooting in Kolkata. It is heard that Rahul Dev Bose will be seen in the role of Sourav’s grandfather, Snehashis Gangopadhyay in the film. Tanya Manektala is slated to play Sourav’s wife Donna.
