83 is an upcoming Indian sports drama film directed by Kabir Khan and jointly produced by Khan, Vishnuvardhan Induri, Deepika Padukone and Sajid Nadiadwala. Co-distributed by Reliance Entertainment, the film stars Ranveer Singh as cricketer Kapil Dev, along with Deepika Padukone, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Saqib Saleem, Harrdy Sandhu, Ammy Virk, Jiiva, Pankaj Tripathi, Boman Irani, Nishant Dahiya, Sahil Khattar and Amrita Puri.
In September 2017, Reliance Entertainment and Vibri Media hosted an event to announce the film with the team that had won the 1983 World Cup before shooting began on 5 June 2019 in England. Earlier scheduled for theatrical release on 10 April 2020, 83 was pushed to 25 December 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. However, in November 2020, the film was again delayed to first quarter of 2021 by makers seeing the worst occupancy report of audience towards theatres owing to the continuity of pandemic. The film is scheduled for release on 4 June 2021.
Cast
- Ranveer Singh as Kapil Dev: captain of the Indian Cricket Team at the 1983 Cricket World Cup
- Deepika Padukone as Romi Bhatia: Kapil’s wife
- Tahir Raj Bhasin as Sunil Gavaskar
- Saqib Saleem as Mohinder Amarnath
- Jiiva as Krishnamachari Srikkanth
- Harrdy Sandhu as Madan Lal
- Ammy Virk as Balwinder Sandhu
- Amrita Puri as Vidya Srikanth: Krishnamachari’s wife
- Sahil Khattar as Syed Kirmani
- Chirag Patil as Sandeep Patil
- Adinath Kothare as Dilip Vengsarkar
- Dhairya Karwa as Ravi Shastri
- Dinker Sharma as Kirti Azad
- Jatin Sarna as Yashpal Sharma
- Nishant Dahiya as Roger Binny
- R Badree as Sunil Valson
- Boman Irani as Farokh Engineer
- Pankaj Tripathi as PR Man Singh: Manager of the 1983 World Cup-winning Indian team
- Parvati Nair as Marshneil Mehrotra Gavaskar: Sunil’s wife
- Aditi Arya as Inderjit Bhardwaj: Mohinder’s wife
Production
Casting
Reliance Entertainment and Vibri Media hosted an event in September 2017 to announce the film along with the entire former team that won the Cricket World Cup in 1983. The cast and their roles were announced in February 2019. Amiya Dev, the daughter of Kapil Dev, joined as an assistant to the director, Kabir Khan. Mali Marshall was cast to play his father, West Indies fast bowler Malcolm Marshall. Composer Pritam joined to create an iconic anthem for the film. Deepika Padukone joined the cast as Kapil Dev’s wife, Romi Bhatia, while also co-producing the film. Tamil actor Jiiva was signed to play Krishnamachari Srikkanth, marking his Hindi debut.
Training
In the first week of April 2019 at a camp at Dharamshala Cricket Stadium, the cast trained at cricket with former cricketers Balwinder Sandhu and Yashpal Sharma. Singh was learning the game from Dev before the start of shooting in June.
Filming
Director Kabir Khan announced that the major shooting of the film would start in England in May 2019. The cast of ‘83 flew to London on 28 May. Principal photography began on 5 June at locations in Glasgow, Dulwich college in London, Edinburgh cricket club, Nevill Ground at Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and The Oval cricket ground. Khan stated, “Now that it’s going on the floors, starting with the Glasgow schedule, everyone’s excited to recreate a journey that made history, all thanks to our cricketing heroes of the ’83 team.” In mid-June, Deepika Padukone joined film team in Glasgow for her part of shooting. The three-month schedule of the film in London was finished on 1 September. Padukone finished her portion of shooting in mid-September. The filming was completed on 7 October 2019.
Music
TBA
Release
Initially releasing on 10 April 2020, 83 was shifted to Christmas 2020 owing to COVID-19 pandemic in India. However, in November 2020, Reliance Entertainment announced that the film has been again put on hold and postponed to first quarter of 2021, seeing the worst occupancy report of audience towards theatres due to continuity of the pandemic. The film is scheduled for release on 4 June 2021.
Distribution
Kamal Haasan and Akkineni Nagarjuna bankrolled the Tamil and Telugu rights of the film, under their Raaj Kamal Films International and Annapurna Studios banner, and the distribution rights of the former was acquired by YNOT X and the latter by Global Cinemas.