Exclusive: Huge surprise! Who will play the role of Chuni Goswami in the biopic on Rahim Sahib?


Anilava Chatterjee:
A massive news for the Indian football fans, as the much-awaited biopic on Syed Abdul Rahim, commonly known as Rahim Sahib, is all set to surprise one and all. Rahim Sahib has been regarded as the architect of modern Indian football.

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Basically a teacher by profession, he was a good motivator and his tenure as a coach is regarded as a “golden age” of football in India. Apart from winning the Asian games in 1951 and 1962, he led the Indian team to the semifinals of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Football tournament making India the first ever Asian country to achieve this place.

Confirmed sources revealed www.xtratime.in that former Indian football team captain Syed Rahim Nabi has been offered to play the role of India’s Gold winning Captain of the 1962 Asian Games – the legendary Chuni Goswami.

It is learned that Nabi was called in the audition as well and the famed director of this movie, Amit Sharma himself went to meet him.

When a movie is on the making on a legend like Rahim Sahib, it is understandable that characters like Jarnail Singh, PK Banerjee, Balaram and Chuni Goswami would be instrumental in that, as achieved the monumental task at Jakarta by winning the historic Gold.

Mukesh Shabria, the casting director of this movie himself chose Nabi. Mukesh also worked as a Casting Director in Aamir Khan’s Dangal. Mukesh was looking for a few footballers as well for the movie and sources revealed that they organized a trial at the Mohun Bagan Ground as well to select them.

Amit Sharma is a very fine director and his latest film Badhai ho, casting Ayushman Khurana and Neena Gupta has been a superhit in the box office. The producer too is none other than the great Boney Kapoor, who has given so many things to Indian film industry, especially in Bollywood. With the people involved in this movie, it can be assumed that another Bollywood masterclass is in the making.

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