Biopics are the flavour of the season and Bollywood doesn't seem to get out of this trend anytime soon. With more than a dozen biographical movies already in the making, the Hindi film industry is exploring the real-life stories like never before. The latest to join the list of the personalities to have a biopic made on him/her is Indian Open water swimmer, Bhakti Sharma. Peepingmoon.com has exclusively learned that T-Series is working on a biopic of Sharma who is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters.
The Bhushan Kumar-led production company is said to be developing this biopic since last year and plans to roll it sometime in 2021. Bhavani Iyer who has written the screenplay for films like Lootera, Black, Raazi, and the upcoming new season of Amazon Prime Video's Breathe series has written this film that's expected to be the first of its kind film to be set in and around the world of swimming. The makers are believed to be in talks with an A-list director to helm it and will soon start approaching actors to play the record-breaking swimmer.
Bhakti Sharma was one of the speakers on Shah Rukh Khan's TED Talks last year
A Mumbai-born-Udaipur-raised girl, Bhakti Sharma has swum in all the five oceans of the world, besides swimming in or across eight other seas and channels. She set the world record in 2016 by swimming 1.4 miles at Antarctic Ocean at 1-degree temperature in just 41.14 minutes, breaking the records of USA's Lynne Cox and Britain's Lewis Pugh. She also holds a world record with her mother Leena Sharma for being the first mother-daughter pair to swim across the English Channel, known as the Mount Everest of swimming.
The biopic is expected to dive deep into Bhakti Sharma's journey, focusing more on her relationship with her mother Leena who was also her coach and started teaching her when she was two and half years old. From the scorching heat of Rajasthan to the bone-chilling waters of the record-breaking swim in Antarctica and her fearless crossing of the English Channel, Bhakti Sharma's life has been full of courage and inspiration, and her biopic is expected to cover all these aspects of her life and the social and cultural battles she and her mother fought in the way to achieve success in a sports like swimming.
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