Dancer cum actor Faisal Khan, who rose to fame as the winner of Dance India Dance Lil Master and also proved his acting chops in Maharana Pratap, will explore the web platform.
We hear the actor will be seen in the biopic of PM Narendra Modi’s life, a 10-episode Eros Now series helmed by filmmaker Umesh Shukla.
The web series will capture the childhood and youth of Modi and will conclude with him taking oath as the Prime Minister. The shooting of the same has been going on in rural Gujarat, Siddhpur and Vadnagar, the real locations where Modi grew up. Three actors have been roped in to play Modi among whom veteran actor Mahesh Thakur will depict Modi’s journey after his appointment as Gujarat CM. Whereas Ashish Sharma will play a younger version of him. The music of the series will be composed by Salim-Sulaiman.
Faisal has been roped in to play an important character.
We reached out to Faisal’s dad but he told us to call later.
We buzzed the spokesperson at Eros Now, but did not get revert.
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