Muthiah Muralidaran is one of the legendary players in cricket. The Sri Lankan off-spinner is the only bowler to have 800 international test wickets. A few years back, a biopic named 800 The Movie was announced on this great cricketer.
Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi was cast to play Muralidaran, and even the first look poster was released. Vijay Sethupathi made a complete transformation as Muralidaran too. But the actor received severe backlash from the Tamil people due to the rumors that the Sri Lankan cricketer supported Prime Minister Rajapaksha during the Civil War with LTTE.
Muralidaran then wrote a letter to Vijay Sethupathi, asking the latter to drop from the project. The cricketer felt that an actor shouldn’t suffer because of him. Therefore Vijay Sethupathi backed out of the project, and afterwards there was no update on it.
Now the news is that the first look poster of this project will arrive tomorrow at 08:00 AM. The talk is that British actor Dev Patel will essay the legendary cricketer. We might get more clarity regarding the biopic tomorrow.