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My entire focus is on sports, biopic can wait until I win more medals: Chopra

Updated on: 12 November,2021 08:59 AM IST  |  New Delhi
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Ever since the Haryana-born javelin thrower scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field events, there have been talks about what his biopic would look like and who would play him on screen

My entire focus is on sports, biopic can wait until I win more medals: Chopra

Neeraj Chopra

Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra doesn’t want a biopic on him until he wins some more medals. That will ensure the film becomes a hit, he says matter-of-factly.


Ever since the Haryana-born javelin thrower scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field events, there have been talks about what his biopic would look like and who would play him on screen. But sports, Chopra says, remains his priority. “I have been approached to do biopics but I think what I have achieved is just the beginning. This was my first Olympics. I want to win more medals. I don’t want the movie to flop,” Chopra said at the Times Now Summit 2021.


“If I can win more medals, I think then the movie too will be a hit. Right now, my entire focus is on sports, I haven’t thought about Bollywood,” he added. During the Tokyo Games, the farmer’s son from Khandra village near Panipat produced a second round throw of 87.58m in the finals to stun the athletics world and end India’s 100-year wait for a track and field medal in the Olympics.


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