Bollywood has been churning out biopics left right and centre. They are making films on the life stories of army officers, politicians, controversial personalities, actors and sportspersons. We have already witnessed biopics on MS Dhoni, Mary Kom, Azharuddin, Saina Nehwal, Phogat family, Milkha Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Pan Singh Tomar and many others. All these are biopics on prominent people who achieved big in sports. The biopics on Kapil Dev, Mithali Raju, PV Sindhu and others arriving in the coming days,
This shows how Bollywood filmmakers are looking for a chance to pounce on an opportunity to make a biopic and set the cash registers ringing. So, when Indian player Neeraj Chopra won the Gold Medal in Tokyo Olympics, everyone was sure that a biopic will be coming out soon. The 23-year-old javelin thrower recently stated that he doesn’t want a biopic made on him so soon as there is a lot more to achieve. He is very young and has a lot of achieve till the end of his career. He added that a biopic can be made on his life story once he retires. Neeraj Chopra said that he would like to see either Akshay Kumar or Randeep Hooda playing his role.
As soon as he said that, people started tweeting to Akshay Kumar regarding this and asked him whether he would play the lead when this biopic gets made. In a typical Akshay style, the ‘Khiladi’ Kumar replied, “I would say Neeraj Chopra is a very good-looking guy. Agar mera koi biopic karega toh woh kar sakta hai (If at all a biopic will be made on my life, he can be the lead hero in it).”
A few netizens already found out a picture of Akshay holding a stick in his hand and started making memes out of it. They are sarcastically commenting that Akshay has already started prepping for Neeraj Chopra’s biopic. The ‘Bell Bottom’ actor said, “I saw that meme where I am holding a stick in my hand. It’s from my first film Saugandh. People started saying, ‘Arre, abhi se practice chalu ho gayi! (He has already started practicing for the film)”.
