After acquiring the rights for King United, a Mumbai based hip-hop dance troupe that won World of Dance, an American reality show, Flmmaker Shailendra Singh has acquired the rights for a film that traces the life of MS Bitta, titled Zinda Shaheed.
Priya Gupta and Shailendra Singh has acquired the rights to the life story of MS Bitta, India’s most bombed man. The duo will be producing the film titled Zinda Shaheed.
Priya Gupta confirmed the film on social media. She tweeted, “So proud to announce that we’ve acquired the much sought after life rights to produce the biopic of ‘India’s Most Bombed Man- MS Bitta’. Film titled #ZindaShaheed goes on floor in 2020!!! Jointly producing it the very mad & passionate @ShailendraS7”
MS Bitta is the only man in India whose body has been bombed over a 15 times protecting the sovereignty of his country India. He fell in love with India from the age of six and was first bombed when he hoisted the Indian flag at the Golden temple in 1983 taking on terrorist Bindrawale’s threat of challenging him to not put up the Indian flag failing which he would be bombed.
He joined and left politics and made it his life’s mission to get terrorists punished, get families of martyrs their rights and fight the big war on political terrorism.
Singh is an award-winning producer of 72 feature films. He has also directed feature films and award winning short films. Gupta has worked as the National Managing Editor for the Times of India’s Entertainment supplement Bombay Times and headed the films division of T-Series where she co-produced several Hindi feature films.
Shailendra Singh And Priya Gupta Confirms A Film On MS Bitta
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