Bollywood diva Anushka Sharma is all set to make her comeback with a back, after a few years long sabbatical. With an upcoming biopic Chakda ‘Xpress on the former Indian women’s cricket team captain Jhulan Goswami, the actor will return to the film industry.
In the new biopic, Anushka Sharma is all set to portray Jhulan Goswami the highest wicket-taker in Women’s ODI cricket.
Anushka wrote, “It is a really special film because it is essentially a story of tremendous sacrifice. Chakda Xpress is inspired by the life and times of former Indian captain Jhulan Goswami and it will be an eye-opener into the world of women’s cricket. At a time when Jhulan decided to become a cricketer and make her country proud on the global stage, it was very tough for women to even think of playing the sport. The film is a dramatic retelling of several instances that shaped her life and also women’s cricket.”
The star wrote, “From support systems, to facilities, to having a stable income from playing the game, to even having a future in cricket-very little propelled women of India to take up cricket as a profession. Jhulan had a fighting and extremely uncertain cricketing career and she stayed motivated to make her country proud. She strived to change the stereotype that women can’t make a career out of playing cricket in India so that the next generation of girls had a better playing field. Her life is a living testimony that passion and perseverance triumphs over any or all adversities and Chakda Xpress is the most definitive look into the not so rosy world of women’s cricket back then. There is still a lot of work to be done and we have to empower them with the best so that the sport can flourish for women in India.”
