Maidaan: Ajay Devgn to Star Opposite National Award-Winner Priya Mani in Amit Sharma’s Sports Drama

Maidaan: Amit Sharma’s sports drama finally finds its leading lady, Priya Mani paired opposite Ajay Devgn in this year's November release

Making headlines for its first-ever football-driven content, Amit Sharma’s sports drama, Maidaan, featuring Ajay Devgn has added to its cast another National Award-winner, Priya Mani, in place of Keerthy Suresh. Starring opposite Ajay, Priya’s fans as well as those of the lead actors, have been set on a frenzy after the news this fresh pairing went viral.

Taking to his social media handle, Indian film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared, “#Update: National Award-winning actress #PriyaMani paired opposite #AjayDevgn in #Maidaan… Directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma [#BadhaaiHo]… Produced by Zee Studios, Boney Kapoor, Akash Chawla and Arunava Joy Sengupta… 27 Nov 2020 release. (sic).”

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#Update: National Award winning actress #PriyaMani paired opposite #AjayDevgn in #Maidaan… Directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma [#BadhaaiHo]… Produced by Zee Studios, Boney Kapoor, Akash Chawla and Arunava Joy Sengupta… 27 Nov 2020 release.

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Starring Ajay as Syed Abdul Rahim, the founding father of Indian football, Maidaan is all set to complete the shoot by March this year in lieu of which, a VFX supervisor was flown from the USA. Actor Ajay Devgn had kick-started the shooting of his upcoming film with director Amit Sharma of Badhaai Ho fame in August 2019. Touted to be a biopic on Syed Abdul Rahim, the man who’s considered the founding father of Indian football, the film is set in 1952-62.

In the poster that was dropped earlier, a giant football-cup trophy features in focus with a glimpse of a stadium in the background. The poster appears like a big post stamp with a caption that read ‘The golden era of Indian football 1952-1962’. This is for the first time that Ajay will be seen doing a sports biopic. The actor is learning to play football quite rigorously, having not played the sport in his entire life before.