Muttiah Muralidaran biopic: As we celebrate the 51st birthday of Muttiah Muralitharan, an iconic off-spinner who claimed 800 Test scalps in his prolonged cricket career to set a record that will most likely be never matched as far as the antiquity of the sport goes, the fans were stunned as the producers of a Muttiah Muralidaran biopic called 800 dropped its maiden poster.
The poster bears an uncanny resemblance to the visage of Muttiah Muralidaran, one of the major factors that the makers of a biopic try to bring into the play. It is Madhur Mittal of the Slumdog Millionaire who would be playing the role of the iconic spinner.
Muttiah Muralidaran had a special love for the scalps and how!
Muralidaran didn’t only limit himself to the shackles of whites to showcase his bowling flair. He ensured that he was turning the ball around significantly in the colours too as his illustrious ODI figures speak of 534 wickets, a rarity in the 50 over format too.
Albeit, failing to rock the shortest format of the game in the finest of colours, he still managed to bag 13 wickets from his 12 games at an economy rate of 6.32. Believe this or not, but he was phenomenal as a batter too albeit being in a solitary innings as he knocked a hard-fought 67.
Adorned with short hair and a French beard and a genuine smile on his visage, Madur Mittal has really sent the fans in awe of how he has almost replicated the spinning icon, as a few fans had a hard time in differentiating between the two.
Here is what Twitter had to say about Muttiah Muralidaran biopic 800
The first-look poster also had a reflection of the bails on the face of Madur Mittal, a notable signposting of the fact that the turner had a special predilection for clipping the bails of the stumps. Twitter was in awe of the entire poster as they expressed their stunning reactions on the micro-blogging website.
Vijay Sethupathi is Perfect Cast ❤💯#800TheMovie #VijaySethupathi pic.twitter.com/zX3qIcd3rB
— Prabhakar (@itz_Prabhaa) April 17, 2023
The untold story of #MuthiahMuralidaran #HBDMuthiahMuralidharan https://t.co/OEotpJyYPT#Madhurmittal #MSSripathy @Mahima_Nambiar @GhibranOfficial @RDRajasekar @Cinemainmygenes @MovieTrainMP @VivekRangachari #800TheMovie #800motionposter pic.twitter.com/fQV6RVucDT
— Mahima Nambiar (@Mahima_Nambiar) April 17, 2023
#HBDMuthiahMuralidaran#800TheMovie 1st Look of #Murali’s Story! pic.twitter.com/pTlAONzYo3
— AndhraBoxOffice.Com (@AndhraBoxOffice) April 17, 2023
#800TheMovie First Look pic.twitter.com/vH49VSO5JC
— Aakashavaani (@TheAakashavaani) April 17, 2023
MUTHIAH MURALIDARAN BIOPIC: FIRST LOOK POSTER… WILL RELEASE IN 3 LANGUAGES… #MadhurrMittal – who won acclaim for his performance in the #Oscar-winning film #SlumdogMillionaire – will play legendary cricketer #MuthiahMuralidaran in his biopic, titled 800 [#800TheMovie].
Motion… pic.twitter.com/zCvfDHXJ0R
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) April 17, 2023
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