5 sports biopics that India can expect in 2017/18

#2 Mariyappan

Mariyappan Thangavelu in the men's high jump finals - T42 during the Paralympic Games

Superstar Rajinikanth’s daughter and filmmaker Aishwarya Rajinikanth Dhanush is set to make her next Tamil directorial which will be a biopic on Indian Paralympic high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu. The first look of the film’s poster was released by Shah Rukh Khan on January 1, as a New Year gift for cinema lovers.

Titled Mariyappan, the film will throw light on the life of the 21-year-old high jumper from the Salem district of Tamil Nadu. In the 2016 Summer Paralympic games held in Rio de Janeiro, the jumper won gold for India in high jump in the T-42 category.

The tagline of the film reads - “The world may think you can’t, what you think is what matters.”