Mumbai: Actor Shahid Kapoor, who is on a roll with the success of Kabir Singh, has bagged the Hindi remake of the Telugu hit Jersey.
The Hindi version will be directed by Gowtham Tinnanauri, who also helmed the original movie.
On casting Shahid in the movie, Gowtham said: "I'm really looking forward to remaking my film Jersey in Hindi and taking it to national audiences and there is no one better than Shahid Kapoor to recreate the magic of the original for Hindi audiences"
The Telugu version of Jersey revolves around the protagonist named Arjun (played by Nani) and his struggles to make it big in Indian cricket.
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Jersey is a story about a late bloomer who realizes his talent at a certain age and pursues his dream to join the Indian cricket team. The sports period drama is set between 1986 and 1996.
Besides sports and romance, the story of Jersey was beautifully woven around a father-son relationship. Jersey in Hindi is being produced by Allu Aravind, Aman Gill, Dil Raju. The film is scheduled to release on August 28, 2020.
If the original story is kept intact, with Jersey, Shahid would have yet another beautiful film to boast about in his filmography.
Though he started out by playing a chocolate boy in Ishq Vishk, but then with films like Kaminey, Haider and Udta Punjab, Shahid Kapoor proved his versatility and talent in carrying off flawed characters with finesse. And with his latest film Kabir Singh, the actor is surprised to see how his most flawed character on-screen has become his most loved.
With inputs from IANS
