Ranveer Singh trains with Kapil Dev for 83
As we already know, director Kabir Khan is making a film on India’s historic 1983 cricket world cup win. The film aptly titled as 83 has Ranveer Singh playing the lead role as Kapil Dev, who was the team’s skipper. The crew is currently in Dharamsala for training and Kapil has also joined them. Ranveer shared photos taken with the legendary cricketer in his official social media handles. Kapil, Balwinder Sandhu and Yashpal Sharma are training the actors. After the training, the team will be travelling to England where bulk of the portions will be shot.
’83’ has a big star cast comprising of actors like Pankaj Tripathi, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Saqib Saleem, Ammy Virk, Jiva and Harrdy Sandhu among others. Tamil actor Jiiva is making his Hindi debut with this film. He will be essaying the role of former Indian cricket team opener Krishnamachari Srikanth. Jiiva, who has a cricketing background having played the game in various levels, has been training rigorously for the movie.