After Milkha Singh, Paan Singh Tomar and Mary Kom, another sports-star is all set to get a Bollywood biopic. Mirror has learnt that the former captain of the India badminton team, Sanjay Sharma, along with his daughter Shachi, have penned a script documenting the struggles of badminton champ, Pullela Gopichand, the second winner of the All England Open Championships after Prakash Padukone. The biopic is an adaptation of a book they wrote in 2011.

The film will roll later this year. It will be directed by Rikhil Bahadur whose short film, Time Out, was screened at Cannes in 2012.

Gopichand who has officially approved of the film will be closely involved with it. Confirming this, Shachi told Mirror, “We've all read and heard so much about Prakash Padukone and more recently, Saina Nehwal. But not many are familiar with Gopichand's story, especially his struggles before he became a badminton star. It deserves a big-screen treatment.“