After entertaining audience with De De Pyaar De, Ajay Devgn is set to return to silver screen with yet another interesting project. Brace yourself as Devgn will surprise you with Syed Abdul Rahim’s biopic, in Maidaan. The film, which is based on golden years of Indian Football, also stars this year’s National Award winner, Keerthy Suresh. Titled Maidaan, the film kick starts today and is expected to release in 2020. While announcing Ajay Devgn’s next, the makers also unveiled the first poster of the film on social media.
As the film is co-produced by Boney Kapoor, proud Arjun Kapoor took to Twitter and captioned the poster, “So proud of Dad, Amit and Ajay sir for telling this untold story of the golden years of football.... @ajaydevgn #Maidaan @iAmitRsharma @keerthyofficial @freshlimefilms @saiwynQ @writish @zeestudios_ @zeestudiosint
So proud of Dad, Amit and Ajay sir for telling this untold story of the golden years of football....@ajaydevgn #Maidaan @iAmitRsharma @keerthyofficial @freshlimefilms @saiwynQ @writish @zeestudios_ @zeestudiosint pic.twitter.com/K6pD21sSVX
— Arjun Kapoor (@arjunk26) August 19, 2019
The film will be directed by Badhaai Ho director Amit Sharma. Taking to Twitter, the director wrote, “Today we enter #MAIDAAN, to tell the story of #GoldenEraOfIndianFootball @ajaydevgn @boneykapoor @keerthyofficial @freshlimefilms @saiwynQ @writish @zeestudios_ @zeestudiosint #bayviewprojects”
Today we enter #MAIDAAN, to tell the story of #GoldenEraOfIndianFootball @ajaydevgn @boneykapoor @keerthyofficial @freshlimefilms @saiwynQ @writish @zeestudios_ @zeestudiosint #bayviewprojects pic.twitter.com/JyilOxjL53
— Amit Sharma (@iAmitRSharma) August 19, 2019
Sharing the poster, Boney Kapoor wrote, “Proud to kick off the Untold Story of The Golden Years of Indian Football. Hope to bring glory to India with this fantastic story. @ajaydevgn @Maidaanofficial @iAmitRSharma @keerthyofficial @freshlimefilms @saiwynQ @writish @zeestudios_ @ZeeStudiosInt”
Proud to kick off the Untold Story of The Golden Years of Indian Football. Hope to bring glory to India with this fantastic story. @ajaydevgn @Maidaanofficial @iAmitRSharma @keerthyofficial @freshlimefilms @saiwynQ @writish @zeestudios_ @ZeeStudiosInt pic.twitter.com/XO4EpKlJsC
— Boney Kapoor (@BoneyKapoor) August 19, 2019
The film is presented by Zee Studios and Boney Kapoor.
Directed by Amit RavinderNath Sharma of the National award winning film ‘Badhai
Ho’, Maidaan is Produced by Boney Kapoor, Akash Chawla and Arunava Joy
Sengupta, screenplay and dialogues are written by Saiwyn Quadros and Ritesh
Shah respectively.
Images Source: instagram/ajaydevgn, twitter/arjun26