A film on Dhyan Chand is coming soon

Indian hockey is always abuzz with news. It never ceases to exist. Last six months in particular, it has been on one big news or other. Lanco Hockey 9s, Olympic Qualifier, followed by World Series Hockey, and then a Pakistan tour cancellation, besides ever-green topic of IHF-HI feud.

Now, its on Major Dhyan Chand, for a change.

This has been in the wind for the last three years. As many as four cinema production houses were on it. Ultimately, its sure. A film on Major Dhyan Chand is a reality.

Just as happened with martyr Bhagat Singh of Indian freedom movement, where almost three companies released a film based on him in a three-month spell, a film on Dhyan Chand too faces the problem of plenty.

Right from Yash Raj Films, which produced super duper hit Chak De India, to independent producer Satyajeet Puri are believed to be in various stages of the film.

Olympian Ashok Kumar, one of the sons of Dhyan Chand, is on record as to providing legal rights to a unnamed cinema company.

The hero of Chak De India, Shah Ruk Khan, who played a role of Kabir Khan as a frustrated player turning into a successful coach, is also on record he has been approached to act as Dhyan Chand.

Films on sporting personalities has been a new passion in Mumbai, nerve centre of cinema production. After Chak De India (2007), films on football, and recently one on Paan Singh Tomor, an Asian Games medalist turned dacoit, have hit the big screens.

It is within my knowledge the plot on Dhyan Chand is a hot topic in Bollywood in the last four years, and has dispatched researchers into nook and corner of the country.

One of my sources with whom I was collecting information on Dhyan Chand as a routine hockey research, all of a sudden stopped interaction, and it was later gathered due to ‘cinema’ effect.

Dhyan Chand is first hockey star in India, if we leave out wrestlers like Gama, who have never taken part in the Olympics.

There has been a huge demand to bestow him with Bharat Ratna.

Never to miss out the huge sentiments the legend evokes, Bollywood will soon present us with a film on him.

India is celebrating his anniversary as Sports Day, and a bronze statue of him welcome us at the National stadium in Delhi, which is also named after him.

This country definitely has not forgotten the hero, and we will have another chapter on him with a film, that can take him further close to the heart of gen next, easily.

The link of my article on Dhyan Chand, as published in India Today, is given below:

http://www.stick2hockey.com/Article/bDHYAN%20CHAND-B%20Sorcerer%27s%20Score/HistoryWatch/17/9199~7611~6426~6361~5958~4489~3690~3162~2763~2618~2055~2023~1881~1796~1795~1344~1343~1342~1341~1340/3690.html