The biopic is likely to be completed by the time Goswami joins skipper Mithali Raj and the rest of the team for the World Twenty20 (T20) tournament in November, 2018.
IANS
Former Indian women's cricket team captain Jhulan Goswami on Tuesday, 19 September, said a biopic will be made on her with the working title Chakdah Express.
Goswami will be the first female cricketer on whom a biopic will be made. A biopic on former men's team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, 2016) has been made while a docu-drama on batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar (Sachin A Billion Dreams, 2017) released earlier this year.
"I have got proposals for a biopic before as well. This is the right time I thought," Goswami told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Kolkata.
The biopic, to be made in Hindi, will be directed by Susanta Das. Das is a film and television director, screenplay-writer and producer, based in Bengal.
"We have seen MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar's biopics. But this will be the first biopic on women's cricket. We will send our crew to wherever Jhulan has played. The focus will be her journey, the odds she overcame since she was 10. Hope it will inspire and motivate millions of youngsters. It's about chasing your dream," Das said.
The biopic is likely to be completed by the time Goswami joins skipper Mithali Raj and the rest of the team for the World Twenty20 (T20) tournament in November, 2018.
Goswami helped India reach the final of the ICC Women's World Cup earlier this year. The team lost to England by 9 runs. She took three wickets in the summit clash.
The 34-year old, who hails from Chakdaha, a city and a municipality in Kalyani sub-division of Nadia district, is the highest wicket-taker in One-Day Internationals (ODIs) with 195 wickets in 164 matches.