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I felt why has the girls’ team been given so little coverage. I shared the idea with Aditya . He liked it and said stop everything else and concentrate on it. I started my research by spending time with hockey players It’s just a matter of chance that Negi's story matches with Kabir Khan. There are
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Colombia, football players are killed for not performing well for the club. I had no idea about Negi’s story while writing the script, and he joined us after the script was ready. In fact, his name was suggested by M. K. Kaushik, who was the coach of the team that won the
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