Adnan Sarwar, the director of the film told The Express Tribune, that film had initially started out as a generic romantic-comedy. “I was able to steer the project in the direction of this sports biopic. I watched Hussain Shah win his Seoul Olympic medal as a child and always knew that if a chance ever came, this is the role I wanted to play and the story I wanted to tell.”
“The fact that this real Pakistani hero was forgotten is the biggest reason this story needs to be told,” he added.
Shah grew up as a homeless child on the streets of Karachi before going on to dominate the Asian boxing circuit for nearly a decade. In doing so he also became the first South Asian to win an Olympic Bronze Medal in boxing at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and to-date remains the only Pakistani athlete to have won an individual medal at the Olympic Games in more than half a century.
The release of the film will coincide with two Moor, Dekh Magar Pyaar Say and Bollywood film Brothers.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2015.
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