Shefali Shah and Kiara Advani should play the lead in my daughter’s biopic, says Leena Sharma mother of champion Indian swimmer Bhakti Sharma

Hindi movie buffs and sports fans, both groups have reason to be excited as producer Meenu Arora is planning a biopic on the life of Indian open water swimmer Bhakti Sharma and her mother Leena Sharma. Bhakti was the first Asian and the youngest woman in the world to swim in the freezing Antarctic waters in 2015. Not just that, along with her mother Leena Sharma, young Bhakti has swam across the English Channel multiple times. This inspiring tale of mother and daughter swimmers is being written by Bhavani Iyer.