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Presently, Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor is doing a lot of good films. Now, the actor will also do the biopics first time. His next movie with director Raja Krishna Menon is a sports biopic. Raja Krishna Menon has directed astonishing movies like Akshay Kumar starrer Airlift (2016) and Saif Ali Khan starrer Chef (2017). In Menon's next project, Shahid will be seen in the role of a boxer. Shahid Kapoor will essay the role of boxing hero Dingko Singh. Dingko Singh is one of the best former boxing champions and Asian Games gold medallist.

 

About being a part of this movie, Shahid Kapoor revealed, "The thing that I loved about this story is that he is one of those superstars who we don’t know much about. If a movie like Dangal (2016) wasn’t made, we wouldn’t know as much about the Phogat sisters. Dingko is a cancer survivor, and he went through 13 rounds of chemotherapy. He has even gone on to say that his biggest win was surviving cancer and not the gold medal he won at the age of 19 at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok. In 2017, Gautam Gambhir became aware of his situation and sent money for his treatment. Soon, people found out who he was, and 13 doctors came forward to help him. He is a sports star who survived cancer. At some point in his past, he had almost become a Naxalite. His life story is unbelievably crazy; it is very human and extremely inspiring. Such amazing stories of heroes need to be told."

 

Dingko Singh's full name is Ngangom Dingko Singh and he is from Manipur. Dingko was the first and only Asian gold medallist boxer from India in the Bantamweight category. Singh was also honoured with Padma Shri in 2013. He has been an inspiration to numerous boxers who came into the ring after him. He also coached a few young boxers.