Angad Bedi on father Bishan Singh Bedi’s biopic: Only someone who has seen his game should make it
Actor Angad Bedi, who was last seen in Dear Zindagi, talks about sports biopics and what kind of a filmmaker should make a film on his father, former cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi. Actor Angad Bedi is making a name for himself by taking up good projects one after the other. He seems to have taken after his father, former cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi, who impressed everyone by taking wicket after wicket in the game. Bollywood is seeing a surge in the trend of biopics on sports personalities. When asked who should be directing his father’s biopic, Angad says, “ If I was not his son, and just his fan, I would say, from an outsider’s perspective, that he makes for a great storytelling [material] but I think his life [biopic] should be given in the hands of a maker, who has seen him play and has followed the sport. Someone who has been part of his era and has seen him now. I think the maker should be someone who has seen cricket in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s,” says Angad. The ac...