Official teaser of Mithali Raj's bipoic Shabaash Mithu featuring Taapsee Pannu bags attention

India women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj has several cricketing achievements to her name in her illustrious 23-year career. She has been instrumental in putting women’s cricket on the world map and at the same time has also led the Women In Blue to two World Cup finals in the 2005 and 2017 editions respectively.

Raj is currently leading India at the ongoing ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 in New Zealand where the Indian women are battling it out to consolidate a semifinal berth. Meanwhile, a biopic which is made in her name titled ‘Shabaash Mithu’ is one of the highly-anticipated movies of this year, and the makers have revealed the movie teaser.

Shabaash Mithu to showcase Mithali Raj’s achievements

Taking to the micro-blogging site, Bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu shared a 56-second video of her next project Shabaash Mithu. At the end of this short video, Taapsee can be seen emulating Mithali’s batting mannerisms to perfection. She has titled it as “In this Gentlemen’s sport, she did not bother to rewrite history, instead she created HER STORY!”

The upcoming biographical sports drama film has been produced by Viacom 18 Studios and directed by renowned Bengali director and screenwriter Srijit Mukherji. As of now, the movie is yet to get an official release date.

Coming back to the Women’s World Cup, Mithali Raj became the first-ever women’s cricketer to feature in six World Cups. She had announced her retirement from T20Is in 2019 to prolong her ODI career but more importantly to participate in the showpiece event. This could well be her swansong and the 39-year-old would be leaving no stone unturned in order to finish her glorious career on a high by lifting the coveted trophy on April 3.

The batting sensation is also the only women’s cricketer to surpass the 7,000 run mark in Women’s One Day Internationals and was also the first batter to register seven straight half-centuries in One Day Internationals. Apart from that, the Rajasthan-born cricketer also holds various other batting records. They include the most number of the fifties in WODIs, being the first-ever player from India to score 2000 T20I runs and also the first women’s cricketer to reach 2000 runs in the shortest format.