Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal said he plans to start shooting of the biopic on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by November, 2019 and expecting to get it released before the end of ‘Mujib Year 2020-21', reports BSS.

The filmmaker revealed this after a meeting with concerned officials of Bangladesh and India as the film would be produced under a joint project of the two countries.

“The film’s scriptwriter Atul Tiwari will travel to Bangladesh next week to carry out the background research for the project,” he said emerging from a meeting with concerned officials of Bangladesh and India as the film would be produced under a joint project of the two countries.

Benegal said Bangladeshi film personality Piplu Khan would assist Tiwari in his research for the 180-minute film on Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation ahead of starting the shooting.

Prime Minister’s international affairs adviser Dr. Gowher Rizvi led the Bangladesh delegation meeting with Indian officials and the filmmaker at a Delhi hotel where they decided to release the movie before the end of ‘Mujib Year 2020-21’.

Benegal was earlier chosen as the director and Atul Tiwari as the scriptwriter of the feature film which will portray Bangabandhu’s life, works and struggle.

The film would be produced in Bangladesh-India joint venture initiative, which had earlier been announced by the prime ministers of both the countries.