Salman Khan turns a TV producer with show on Gama Pehalwan

Over a year back, rumours of Salman Khan bringing the legendary Gama Pehalwan’s story live on big screen broke the internet. We also heard his youngest brother Sohail Khan was set to essay the protagonist’s role. Well, looks like the plan has changed a bit!

Salman is still very much keen to work on Gama Pehalwan’s life story, but has ditched the plan of making a film on him. Instead, he is opting for a TV show which will be like a biopic, through a series of episodes. This, at the same time, marks Salman’s debut as an investor in the small screen. (Also Read: Katrina Kaif invites Salman Khan over family dinner. What’s cookin’, goodlooking?)

“The story is set in Amritsar, Gama’s home town, during the Partition. The show opens with a rioting scene and a few minutes into it, a 65-year-old Gama Pahelwan makes an entry,” a source close to the development informed Mid-Day, adding that the show’s pilot episode was already shot and sent to the concerned channel.

Gama Pehalwan was a phenomenal wrestler and one of the greatest in the history, who moved to Pakistan post 1947 and eventually died there.

Ranjini Maitra

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