800 will be made: Muralitharan

October 29, 2020 20:03

The last word is yet to be said on 800, the Muttiah Muralitharan biopic that had run into rough weather in Tamil Nadu over the casting of actor Vijay Sethupathi over fears that it may serve as a propaganda vehicle for the Sri Lankan cause (read, anti-Tamil).

With the world record holder for number of Test wickets (800, obviously) requesting the actor to pull out following threats on social media, the project seemed to have gone into limbo, but the cricket legend believes otherwise.

'It will be made. The film's not just for Tamil Nadu. The producers are from Mumbai, they want it in all languages, in Tamil, Sinhala, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam and with English subtitles,' Muralitharan tells the BBC's Nalini Srinivasan from Dubai, here.

And while on the subject, do also read N Sathiya Moorthy's analysis of why Tamil Nadu erupted in protest over the biopic, here.

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