'Lahore' director Chauhan to direct film on 1983 World Cup win

India's first cricket World Cup victory in 1983 will come alive on the silver screen with 'Lahore' fame director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan reportedly steering the project.
The film, tentatively titled '1983', will be produced by the founder-president of Celebrity Cricket League, Vishnu Vardhan Induri.
The film will portray the story of Indian cricket team back in 1983 and how it became pride of the nation by bringing the World Cup home after defeating the formidable West Indies, sources said.
The film's script has been finalised and pre-production work has already begun. They plan to recreate the 1983 moments. The film will be a big project and the makers are leaving no stone unturned to do justice to the story, according to sources.

The film is likely to go on floors by the end of this year.
"The film will be shot in those very stadiums where the 1983 World Cup matches were played. The final will be shot at Lord's cricket ground in London. It would be interesting to see on the big screen how Kapil Dev and his men, including Mohinder Amarnath, Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Balwinder Singh Sandhu, managed to win the tournament," sources said.
The filmmaker now plans to meet the cricketers who were part of the winning squad to add to accuracy of the film.