Shabaash Mithu: Tapsee Pannu to star in Indian cricketer Mithali Raj’s biopic

Biopics are nothing new in Bollywood. For the last few years, Hindi filmmakers have been severely obsessed with biopics and real-life incident based films. Among them, the most popular category is sports biopics. The lives of sporting icons like Mary Kom, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Milkha Singh have all been brought on screen. Mithali Raj, arguable the greatest woman cricketer to have represented India, is the latest to get a biopic.

Taapsee Pannu is playing the lead in the film, which has been titled as ‘Shabaash Mithu’. The formal announcement was made last day on the occasion of Mithali’s birthday. ‘Raees’ fame Rahul Dholakia is directing the film. Tapsee took to her social media to inform the big news. She tweeted,

Happy Birthday Captain @M_Raj03 On this Birthday, I don’t know what gift I can give you but this promise that I shall give it all I have to make sure you will be proud of what you see of yourself on screen with #ShabaashMithu
P.S- I’m all prepared to learn THE ‘cover drive’

Shoot for the film is set to begin by mid_2020. Tapsee will be undergoing rigorous cricket training prior to that. Mithali Raj is a veteran with over 20 years of experience in international cricket. She is regarded as one of the greatest batswomen to have ever played the game. She owns numerous records like being the highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket and the only female cricketer to surpass the 6,000 run mark in WODIs. She is the also only woman cricketer to have played over 200 ODIs.