Filmworld
Sonakshi 'can't wait' to play Dawood's sister
Mumbai, Aug 3
Actress Sonakshi Sinha is looking
forward to essaying underworld don Dawood IbrahimÂ’s sister Haseena
Parkar on screen in filmmaker Apoorva Lakhia's upcoming biopic “Haseena
- The Queen of MumbaiÂâ€. She says the film has a “brilliant scriptÂâ€
and she “can't wait†to take on the role.
"It is a brilliant
script… I can’t wait to play Haseena,†Sonakshi, who is currently
shooting for “AkiraÂâ€, posted on micro-blogging site Twitter after
music composer Shekhar Ravjiani congratulated the 28-year-old for her
next project.
Haseena Parkar, the elder sister of Dawood, died in
July last year. She shot to fame after some rival gangsters led by Arun
Gawli gunned down her husband Ismail Parkar in a gang war in 1991 which
led to a spate of brutal retaliatory killings from the Dawood gang at
that time.
Subsequently, Haseena was reportedly acting as the
don's Mumbai business head. Though officially she was not directly
implicated in any underworld activities, it is believed that in parts of
south Mumbai, nothing moved without her nod.
This is not the
first time Sonakshi will be starring in an underworld film. She played
DawoodÂ’s love interest in “Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobaara!Ââ€,
which was said to be based on the life of the fugitive don.
"Haseena
- The Queen of Mumbai" will roll out for shooting early next year. It
will bring alive 40 years of Haseena's life and is the emotional saga of
a woman and what it meant to be Dawood Ibrahim's sister.