Richa Chadha on sports biopic: Great to see films on women sports stars
Bollywood actress Richa Chadha is all set to play the role of a kabaddi player with Kangana Ranaut in her next film directed by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari and titled as Panga. While there have been many biopics that are being made in Bollywood, the actress revealed that she finds it great that a number of movies are being written about women sports stars.
Richa has begun prepping for the movie, which will be one of the most physically challenging roles she has played in her Bollywood career. The film, also starring Pankaj Tripathi, will be about women kabaddi players and the trials they face.
"It's great to see such a great number of films like 'Panga' being written on female sport athletes. Its important to have representation and such diversity being shown on-screen. To show such stories helps create awareness both for the amazing women we have in the sports arena who are doing so well internationally and it also helps increase the popularity for the sport," Richa said in a statement.
"It's great to see filmmakers like Ashwini Iyer Tiwari who are etching such roles for women that shows them as a figure of strength and vigour," she added.
Omung Kumar's "Mary Kom" on boxer M.C. Mary Kom brought the spotlight on women sportspersons, and now films are being made on icons like Saina Nehwal and Sania Mirza.
(With IANS inputs)
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