India Times has reported that Kamagata Maru saga will be turned into a mega budget Bollywood movie. Bollywood super star Salman Khan will be co-producing the movie along with a Toronto based Indian tycoon Ajay Virmani. Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan will play the lead role of Sikh lawyer Gurdit Singh who fought for the rights of Kamagata Maru passengers to enter Canada.
The film is said to impart religious message and will be released sometime in 2017.
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This movie is based on a real-life drama involving around 376 South Asian ocean passengers out of which 24 were Muslims, 340 were Sikhs and 12 were Hindus. All of them were on board a Japanese steamship called Kamagata Maru chartered by Malaysian Sikh businessman Gurdit Singh. These passengers were denied entry into Canada in 1914.
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