Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 17, 2019)

Kabir Khan’s next directorial ’83, featuring Ranveer Singh as Kapil Dev, Captain of the World Cup-winning Indian cricket team of 1983, is going on the floors in Glasgow on June 5. The film’s team will be shooting at a local cricket club in the Scottish port city for a week, followed by other popular locations like Dulwich college in London, Edinburgh cricket club, Nevill Ground at Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and the Oval cricket ground.

A source associated with the film informs, “The team has been having marathon meetings every day and all the actors who had been training regularly for two hours, have been putting in extra time before the shoot begins. Ranveer was recently in Delhi to spend time with Kapil Dev before getting into his shoes and the former cricketer is also expected to drop in on the sets.”

Accompanying the onscreen team that has Saqib Saleem, Adinath Kothare, Harrdy Sandhu, Ammy Virk among others on the shoot, besides Pankaj Tripathi who plays their manager Man Singh, are their coaches Rajiv Mehra and former cricketer Balvinder Singh Sandhu.

Kabir, confirmed the news, saying, “Since it’s a real-life story, this film involved a lot of training and research. Now that it’s going on the floors, starting with the Glasgow schedule, everyone’s excited to recreate a journey that made history, all thanks to our cricketing heroes of the ’83 team.” The film is being produced by Madhu Mantena, Sajid Nadiadwala, Vishnu Induri, Shibasish Sarkar and Kabir.

Mirror had earlier reported (April 15) that besides actors from across the country who play members of the winning team, West Indies fast bowler Malclom Marshall’s son Mali Marshall has also joined in to essay his father in the film. Kabir has also approached the sons of other famous West Indian players and talks with them are on, including fast bowler Carl Greenidge, son of Gordon Greenidge.