<img title="Arjun Rampal" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/jun/Arjun-Rampal-a.jpg" alt="Arjun Rampal" />Arjun Rampal
With a spell of duds at the box office, Arjun Rampal is placing all his bets on his upcoming film, 'Daddy', a biopic on gangster-politician Arun Gawli. Besides co-producing the project, Rampal has also forayed into scriptwriting with this movie. He has been credited for co-writing the screenplay along with director Ashim Ahluwalia.
Explaining the new role, Rampal says, "Three years ago, someone approached me to play Gawli. I was taken aback because I didn't understand how they thought I'd fit the bill. They gave me a script that was far removed from Gawli's actual life. So, I refused to do it. But the idea stayed with me and I began researching about him. I was intrigued that he is called 'Daddy' and not 'Bhai' or 'Dada'. I started meeting people who knew him and decided to put pen and paper together. I locked myself in a hotel room for almost two months and started writing."
<img title="Rampal as Arun Gawli in the upcoming biopic" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/jun/daddy-final.jpg" alt="Rampal as Arun Gawli in the upcoming biopic" /> Rampal as Arun Gawli in the upcoming biopic
Rampal isn't new to writing although he has done it in personal capacity, writing poetry and short stories. "This was a completely different experience; it was the first time I wrote a screenplay. I had to make sure that it didn't turn out to be a propaganda film, where we showed him as a good samaritan, neither could he have been an out-and-out anti hero."
Rampal is planning to organise a screening for the residents of Byculla's Dagdi Chawl, Gawli's stronghold and a gated community where his family continues to live. It was from here that a mill worker transformed into a member of the local mafia, and finally a politician in the 1990s.
"We are still a month away from the release. I plan to show them the film, which is based on a man they love and admire," he says.

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