Indian actor Irrfan Khan has shot down rumours that he will be playing the titular role in director Omung Kumar’s upcoming film Sarabjit, a biopic on the slain Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh.
The Piku star, who is in Budapest shooting for his next Hollywood project Inferno alongside Tom Hanks, said he has not been approached for the film.
“I haven’t been approached to play Sarabjit at all. This news is definitely not true,” Khan, 48, said in a statement.
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been roped in to play Singh’s sister Dalbir Kaur, who fought for her brother’s release from the jail in Lahore.
Singh, 49, was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Pakistan’s Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990. He spent about 22 years in prisons.
A court sentenced him to death.
Singh sustained severe injuries when six prisoners attacked him in a Pakistani jail in 2013. He succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
The film will begin shooting in Punjab this October and is expected to hit theatres in May 2016.
