Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]. August 26 (ANI): Nagesh Kukunoor's 2005 sports play 'Iqbal,' featuring Shreyas Talpade, has completed 20 years of its release. Talpade, who played the titular relation arsenic the deaf and mute cricketer, took to his Instagram grip and recalled fond memories of the film.
Describing the movie arsenic the "biggest support" of his career, the histrion wrote, "This is wherever it each began! Thank you for being the biggest enactment successful my vocation and making an interaction successful my life."
Talpade besides extended his wishes to the full squad and formed of 'Iqbal'.
In his post, the histrion shared a drawstring of pictures from the sets of the film, including behind-the-scenes moments, expressing that helium feels "blessed and grateful" for the emotion received implicit the years.
Actor Shweta Basu Prasad, who played the quality of Talpade's on-screen sister, Khadija, besides penned a heartwarming enactment to observe 20 years of 'Iqbal.'
"20 YEARS OF IQBAL!! Thank you everyone for each the emotion for Iqbal, for each these years," she wrote connected Instagram.
Shweta, who was 14 astatine the clip of the film's release, added, "Iqbal released 20 years agone connected this day. One different movie released that time - No Entry - it starred Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and had galore deed songs. Even arsenic a 14-year-old, I understood that Iqbal was competing with a "big" movie astatine the container office. We had smaller posters, less screens. And then...Audience loved our film. Iqbal stayed successful cinemas for 50 days, became tax-free and won galore awards that season. Good stories volition ever stay, ever thrive."
Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, 'Iqbal' featured Shreyas Talpade successful the pb relation alongside actors similar Naseeruddin Shah and Shweta Basu Prasad. The movie was made nether the banner of Mukta Searchlight Films and produced by Subhash Ghai.
The film's communicative revolves astir Iqbal, a young, deaf and mute lad who dreams of playing cricket for India. Considered a cult classic, 'Iqbal' went connected to container respective nominations, adjacent winning the National Film Award for Best Film connected Other Social Issues. (ANI)
