Dada: Rajkummar Rao Plays Sourav Ganguly

Part of the big screen’s version of India’s most recognizable cricket personality, with Rajkummar Rao in the title role of Sourav Ganguly in Dada: The Sourav Ganguly Story.

Reporting Ganguly’s Life and Times as only former India Captain and current President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) can.

Scheduled to release May 14, 2027, the flick has already piqued public interest after the release of its first look poster.

While it celebrates a popular sports figure, the plot and time frames of Ganguly’s life displayed in the movie, remains a mystery.

What Is Dada About?

The film takes inspiration from the life of an iconic Indian cricketer.

Ganguly was born in Kolkata in 1972. He evolved as an acclaimed left hand batsman and went on to become the captain of the national cricket team.

He had a distinguished international career, achieving several milestones in both Test and ODI cricket.

During the early 2000s, Ganguly was associated with a defiant and aggressive brand of cricket which, along with his team mates, popularized internationally.

The film is expected to capture the high points of his professional career and the challenges of competing in international cricket.

The Rajkummar Rao Starrer

Rajkummar Rao plays Ganguly in the biopic.

The actor is noted for his performances in Hindi films including Shahid, Newton, Stree, and Srikanth.

He has a diverse filmography consisting of commercially successful films and character-driven films based on real people.

Portraying a cricketer poses a challenge different from depicting a fictional character.

Being an audience familiar with Ganguly, they will know how he bats, how he behaves off the field, and recognize his mannerisms, and public persona.

Ganguly has a unique batting stance, and the film’s first poster has recreated one of his most famous celebrations.

Dada’s audience should know that pictures/posters are used for promotion, and though they highlight an aspect of the movie, and sometimes a prominent scene, they don’t always showcase every single scene of the movie.

A major reason for the first poster’s popularity was because of the lead actor being a public figure.

Rao has previously addressed the first poster and the importance of portraying Ganguly on the big screen. He elaborated that actors draw from different aspects of an individual’s persona to bring a public figure to life on the silver screen.

Vikramaditya Motwane directs the Ganguly biography.

Motwane is known for Trapped, Lootera, Udaan, and CTRL.

His films touch upon the nuances of society and the disparate, conflicting aspects of the human condition.

Motwane worked with Rao earlier in Trapped where Rao’s portrayal of a man dealing with unbearable isolation was appreciated critically and commercially.

Motwane brings a lot of personal experience, and social-political nuances to his filmmaking.

This biography reunites Rao with Motwane. Interstellar’s Siddharth Diwan is the cinematographer and Abhay Koranne is the screenwriter.

This moment is depicted in the promotion for the film and took place during the 2002 NatWest Series final.

India successfully chased down a competitive total to win the match at Lord’s, with Ganguly leading from the front, scoring a critical 31 in his side’s run chase. As with all of his iconic celebrations, this one was planned, and as is the case with most, it was captured for all time.

Ganguly captured the new found zeal of Indian cricket and reinvigorated the sport in a country where he was already something of a legend. The celebrations from that day are some of the most storied in all of international cricket, and for good reason. The display of confidence was something the Indian side had lacked for a long time and is something they have not needed to show since.

The film’s creators have used this moment to evoke the wider public imagination of Ganguly’s leadership, and captured one of his more memorable displays of it. The picture has yet to be completed and the filmmakers will decide how much of Ganguly’s career they’ll cover, and potentially the 2002 series. His legacy doesn’t only span the one series he captained India in. He revitalized Indian cricket on and off the pitch for decades to come.

In the absence of official word from the production, assumptions about which figures will populate the film based on known historical events are unfounded. Likewise, the use of popular search terms such as movie box premium apk download do not mean the production is authorized for theatrical or digital release.

Date of Release and Next Steps

Dada: The Sourav Ganguly Story will be released on May 14th, 2027. The first anniversary of the release of the film’s poster coincided with the release of the first poster on Ganguly’s birthday last July.

At this time, filmmakers already have a director, a lead actor, producer, and cinematographer already in place.

The details of the rest of the cast, a complete synopsis of the film, the running time, and when the film will be available to stream are still unknown.

Of greatest interest to audiences is likely the opportunity the film provides to revisit and reinterpret a crucial era in the history of Indian cricket.

Motwane is known for thoughtful, character-based films, as is Rao, who will portray Ganguly. The movie will likely gain the most interest if it creates an accurate portrait of the person behind the accomplishments in addition to showcasing the more well known accomplishments.