Mithali Raj’s friend, former cricketer Nooshin Al Khadeer starts training Taapsee Pannu for the cricketer’s biopic

Back in the month of May, Bombay Times was the first to tell you that Taapsee Pannu will be trained by cricketer Mithali Raj’s friend

Nooshin

Al Khadeer for her biopic, Shaabash Mithu. The actress, who was been on a roll since the lockdown started getting phased out late in 2020, has completed her Tamil film and Rashmi Rocket already. She’s currently shooting Looop Lapeta, and is gearing up for the Mithali Raj biopic simultaneously. She also has a film lined up with her friend, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.

Talking about training for the Mithali Raj biopic, Taapsee told BT, “Nooshin is training me. She is Mithali’s friend and an ex-cricketer. She used to play for Team India and is now a full-time,

professional coach

. The training has just started. Though I cannot say much at this stage, I can know it will take a lot of skill and focus out of me to play Mithali Raj perfectly.”

Taapsee, known for her performances in films like

Thappad

, Manmarziyaan,

Saand Ki Aankh

, Badlaa, Mulk and Soorma, would have shot this film in 2020 had the lockdown not been imposed. The prep for Shaabash Mithu has finally begun. The makers waited for Taapsee to wrap up Rashmi Rocket in which she plays a sprinter from Bhuj.
Back in the month of May 2020, Taapsee had told BT, “One of Mithali’s friends, Nooshin, also a coach with the Railways Team, was going to train me on the field. I have also met Mithali and she has a few things similar and a few character traits totally opposite of mine. Her demeanour is of a perfect team leader. She’s slightly introverted, which I guess will be a challenge for me to play. I chat with her on messages but it’s been formal so far. I look forward to keeping in touch with her for the rest of my life because she’s an inspiration for many girls like me. As for the training, had everything been fine, I could have used my time to polish my game as a cricketer but that is not possible right now. I can’t watch videos to learn how to play the game. So, I will just try and maintain my health in a way that when I start training again for Rashmi Rocket and Shaabash Mithu, things don’t take very long to fall into place.”