Mumbai, June 25: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Randeep Hooda are siblings in director Omung Kumar’s biopic Bollywood movie of Sarabjit Singh.

Mary Kom fame director Omung Kumar is going to direct biopic on the slain Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh. The director says that, Actor Randeep Hooda will play the lead role of movie as Sarabjit Singh and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will play the role of Singh’s sister who struggled to release him.

Director Omung said that “Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Randeep Hooda are going to be a part of my next biopic Sarbjit and both will be seen as brother and sister in this. Audience can see different chemistry between the actors in this biopic”.

The film maker added that “Highway actor Randeep, is ideal choice for my project, he fits for the role and besides being the hard working person that he is, he looks the character. Above all, he’s a method actor”

Earlier the makers of movie has approached other leading actors of Bollywood but finally Aishwarya got the chance to play a powerful role as sister of Sarabjit Singh as Daljit Kaur, who fought for her brother’s to release from the Lahore jail. For the first time, Highway fame actor Randeep Hooda and Aishwarya sharing screen space together.

The biopic is being produced by Sandeep Singh, Zeeshan Quadri and Omung Kumar and the movie will go on the floor in October 2015. The film is expected to be release at Cannes Film Festival 2016.