Randeep Hooda, Aishwarya to star in Sarabjit: Omung Kumar

Mary Kom fame director Omung Kumar’s says that actors Randeep Hood and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will feature in his upcoming film Sarabjit, a biopic on the late Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan.

“Yes Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Randeep Hooda are going to be apart in my next biopic Sarbjit,” Kumar said in a statement.

Randeep will play Sarabjit <g data-gr-id="12">Singh,</g> while Aishwarya will essay his sister Dalbir Kaur Singh. The movie will narrate the struggle of Dalbir Kaur, whose sole aim in life was to get her brother, who had been mistakenly taken to be an Indian spy, out of jail. Sarabjit will be shot over one schedule of 70 days in Punjab, starting October 2015.