Sonakshi Sinha is quite excited these days. She will soon join the cast of Bhuj: The Pride of India, in which she plays a real-life character, Sunderben Jetha Madharparya. The war drama, also featuring Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Parineeti Chopra, Rana Daggubati and Ammy Virk, went on floors earlier this week in Hyderabad.
The film revolves around the Indo-Pak war of 1971, in which squadron leader Vijay Karnik of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and his team, with the help of 300 local women, reconstructed the IAF airbase. Sonakshi plays Sunderben, a social worker, who brought together 300 women from Madhapur to help build the runway.
Talking about the part, Sonakshi said, “It’s almost like doing a biopic, because my character is crucial to the story. Sunderben had convinced 300 women to help build the runway during the war in just 72 hours. I’m yet to start shooting for the film, but I have been reading and researching about Sunderben for a while now. Her story has been blended very well into the rest of the plot.”
Meanwhile, speculations have also been making the rounds that Sonakshi is the front-runner to play para-Olympian Deepa Mallik in her biopic. Hearsay is that she is in talks with Farhan Akhtar and his team that will back the film. While talking to BT recently, she brushed the conjectures aside, saying, “It’s speculation till it’s announced by the makers of the film. I never speak about a project until I sign on the dotted line. So, if and when that happens, I will announce it from rooftops.”
—Times of India
