World professional billiards champion Pankaj Advani will take acting and dancing lessons for a Hollywood film on his life and times
World professional billiards champion Pankaj Advani will take acting and dancing lessons for a Hollywood film on his life and times
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Taking cue: Pankaj Advani won the world championship earlier this week. |
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Scenes from a promo for the film on his life |
World beater in blockbuster
World-beater Pankaj Advani will act as himself in a lavishly mounted Hollywood film.
R Chenraj Jain, chancellor, Jain University, is preparing to produce the film on the world billiard champion's life and times.u00a0
Pankaj returned to hometown Bangalore on Tuesday after winning the world pro billiards championship.
This will be Pankaj's first time in front of a camera, but he has already shot a promo.
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Winner: More scenes from the promo produced for the Pankaj Advani bio-pic |
Two cities
Jain is talking to well-known directors and scriptwriters in Los Angeles and Mumbai. He plans to make the film in English and Hindi.
The Jain Group of Institutions is producing the film, and MiD DAY has gained exclusive access to the promo.
Pankaj, who studied B Com at Jain College, will soon sign up for an MBA degree.
"I have decided to gift him a movie on his success," Jain told MiD DAY.
Negotiations
It took Jain's team six rounds of meetings to convince Advani.
"I know all about his struggle... the movie will chronicle it," Jain said.
The film will be shot on the lines of The Pursuit of Happyness, the Hollywood film about Chris Gardener, the American who started out as an ordinary man and earned spectacular wealth.
"The movie will be realistic," Jain explained. "Pankaj's life is a message in itself."
Gym time
Pankaj has started working out at a gym, and will also start taking classes in acting and dancing.
Jain preferred not to reveal details about the crew before the formal announcement of the film in October.
"Two script-writers are working on it," he said. "We will honour Pankaj at a grand event, after which we will announce all details."
Chenraj who?He is known as an education businessman in Bangalore, but in Tamil Nadu, they know him as a movie producer and financier. Chenraj Jain co-produced Rickshaw Mama, starring Satyaraj.
