Shah Rukh Khan or Ranbir Kapoor – who will make a better Dhyan Chand?

Sports biopics are here to stay. It all started with Bhaag Milkha Bhaag in that Farhan Akhtar played Milkha Singh with coolness and now Priyanka Chopra is going to pierce Mary Kom’s epic journey. Rumours advise that a subsequent competition star to be immortalised on a large shade will be hockey fable Dhyan Chand and reports advise that a film will helmed by Ila Bedi Dutta – who wrote Agneepath – and constructed by Pooja Shetty.

There are reports that possibly Shah Rukh Khan or Ranbir Kapoor would play a lead role. Ila Bedi has been quoted as saying: ‘I met Shah Rukh to plead a project. To us, he is a ideal choice for Dhyan Chand. Though we haven’t listened from him yet, we design him to pointer a dotted line.’

Even Abhishek Bachchan thinks SRK can do good probity to a role. He pronounced recently during an event: ‘A diver whose life will be illusory on shade is Major Dhyan Chand. It will be an unimaginable story. These are a stories that need to be told. we told Shah Rukh Khan (during a fire of Happy New Year) to make a film on it and play a protagonist, since he looks a lot like him. If we see his photo, we contingency need to change Shah Rukh’s hair a bit. Shah Rukh was a hockey player. we consider he will be fantastic.’

Incidentally, Shah Rukh has already seemed in a hockey film – Chak De – where he plays a ashamed actor who earnings to a diversion to manager a Indian girls’ hockey team.

Who was Dhyan Chand?

Considered one of a biggest margin hockey players of all time, he belonged in an epoch when margin hockey was dominated by Indians. He was partial of a all-conquering Indian teams that won 3 Olympic bullion medals (1928, 1932 and 1936). In a Berlin Olympics in 1936, in Hitler’s Germany, Dhyan Chand was executive in a opening where India broken Germany 8-1 in a finals.

He was hailed as a wizard in Berlin and a Fuhrer even offering him a possibility to pierce to Germany and be a Colonel in a army though a unapproachable jingoist that Dhyan Chand was, declined a offer. Such was his status in a diversion that his birthday – 29 Aug – has been announced National Sports Day in India.

So who will turn a improved Dhyan Chand – Shah Rukh Khan or Ranbir Kapoor?

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Pic Source: Getty Images and Yash Raj Films

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Shah Rukh Khan or Ranbir Kapoor – who will make a better Dhyan Chand?