Director Hansal Mehta’s film Chhalaang is due to release on Amazon Prime. The film, in which Rajkummar Rao plays a lead role, and is paired with Nushrat Bharucha, was originally titled Turram Khan. Writer Aseem Arora says, “But by the time we finished writing the script, we got a sense that it has a much bigger meaning than what can be conveyed by Turram Khan, he shared, adding, “Chhalaang (meaning Jump) is a very socially relevant topic.” Giving details about the plot, Aseem says, “It’s about sports and education.
Rajkummar Rao is a physical training instructor in a school in a small town in Haryana. It’s about the coming-of-age of this man and how he trains the kids. He is not serious about his job initially, but one event makes him realise how sports and education should go hand-in-hand as they have the same values. These values should be instilled in every child, who will then be empowered to take on the world.” No date has been set as yet for the OTT release.
