Meena Iyer (DNA; November 15, 2017)

After the success of Golmaal Again, Ajay Devgn is scheduled to do a biopic on Jaswant Singh Gill, the hero of the 1989 Raniganj coalfield rescue operation. The film, titled Capsule Gill was meant to be directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, who helmed the blockbuster Rustom with Akshay Kumar, which also fetched the actor his first National Award.

However, there’s new development on the film’s front — Tinu will no longer be directing the movie that deals with the mining tragedy, with Ajay playing Gill, who evacuated 65 coal miners trapped in a flooded mine in Raniganj, West Bengal. The then Additional Chief Mining Engineer was also awarded the Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak in 1991 by President Venkataraman for the successful operation. A source says, “Tinu and Ajay met a few times. However, they couldn’t come to an understanding on certain key script points. Hence, Ajay is now likely to make the film with a new director on board.”

Ajay remained unavailable for comment but the buzz is that the script is currently being reworked and the film will go on floors after the two-time National Award winning actor finishes Indra Kumar’s Total Dhamaal, which he starts shooting in January 2018.