Richa Chadha To Star In Shakeela’s Biopic!

March 7th, 2018 | by vBollywood Author

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Richa Chadha To Star In Shakeela’s Biopic!

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Not easy to take up parts which go onto becoming memorable, we have seen Vidya Balan in a film titled Dirty Picture and was appreciated for her role.

The film was a major hit with a leading woman wasn’t such a common phenomenon. Now we see Richa Chadha who is all set to helm the biopic of Shakeela, one of the 90s biggest actresses from Kerala who acted in many adult films in languages spanning Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

The biopic starring Richa in the lead role will tell the tale of Shakeela from when she entered the film business at the age of 16 and traces her life journey from there. After Shakeela became a raging success in cinema halls making history like and fanfare. Her movies were dubbed in languages across India but also were dubbed languages Chinese, Nepalese and others languages.

Shakeela was known as a popular figure in the film business at a time popularity was only for the men in the industry dominated by them. Richa’s spokesperson stated, “The film is the story of Shakeela, one of the most famous actors from Malayalam cinema from the 90s who rose to a spectacular amount of fame. Her fans were spread across Asia and she earned fanfare as a woman which back then was unheard of. The film’s script was exciting and is a great story to tell and the story will make for a great watch for the audience. The preparations will begin soon and the film should be going on floors in end April or May.”

The movie is being directed by Indrajit Lankesh who has won many acclaimed awards in his career that began in 2001. The movie will go on floors this April and will release early 2019.

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