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Emraan to play Suryakant Bhande Patil's biopic.

7th August 2018

Emraan Hashmi is roped in to play Suryakant Bhande Patil, India's most inspiring detective who solved 120 children kidnapping cases for free. The movie will be titled 'Father's Day' as it is a tale of the real-life father-son story and is based on a book of the same name.

Drishyam Adrishyam, by Gujarati author Praful Shah. Directed by debutant Shantanu Baagchi, who has over 300 ad films to his credit, with screenplay and dialogue by Ritesh Shah, who penned 'Airlift', 'Pink' and 'Raid', the film will be jointly produced by Emraan, Priya Gupta and Kalpana Udyawar.

Confirming the news, Emraan Hashmi said. ''Suryakantji's story is heartbreaking but very inspiring. It’s rare to find a person who has dedicated his whole life to helping find the kidnapped children of others, that too for free. I am proud to be playing him in the film.''

Suryakant Bhande is a Pune-based civil engineer has been collaborating closely with cops, not just in Pune but also in Mumbai, to trace missing children and has even set up a website dedicated to them. He started his detective agency, Spy Sanket, in 1999 after an incident changed the direction of his life. Emraan will shoot for the film from next year in various locations of Maharashtra. 

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