Is kabir Khan casting Ranveer Singh as Kapil Dev in the film on World Cup 1983 win?

Phantom director and writer, Kabir Khan, after completing his upcoming movie shoot Tubelight with Salman Khan is all set to start a film based on the 1983 World Cup win of India. The film is being produced by Phantom.

According to the Yahoo News, Kabir is keen to cast with Ranveer Singh as the lead role, Indian captain, Kapil Dev.
Ranbir and Kabir will have a discussion over the project and Kabir will work on script and screenplay after the release of the Tubelight.

However, Phantom had already started collecting raw data for the references and and it’s on Kabir to decide what will go into the movie and what not.

Kabir also has another film with Amitabh Bachchan titled, Zookeeper.