After wrapping up the shooting of her upcoming thriller in London last month, Parineeti Chopra is prepping herself for her next, Amole Gupte directed Saina Nehwal biopic. The actress started the shoot of the film on October 11 in Mumbai.

The first day’s shoot was held at the International Institute of Sports Management, Nilesh Kulkarni’s institution where of the 600 students, 85 per cent are national or state level players. In the first scene, Parineeti as Saina will be answering questions from the fraternity, including journalists, students and sports management people.

The actress has been rigorously practising since the last six months to step into the shoes of the Olympian shuttler. She even took her coach Eshan Naqvi with her to London. She has dedicated two hours a day to the sport with the best of the coaches at the academy and the Khar Gymkhana to ensure that she looks convincing playing badminton on screen.

Bhushan Kumar, who is producing the film with Krishan Kumar, says he has seen several clips of Parineeti’s training and she is doing a fabulous job.

In 2015, Saina became the World No 1. Few months later, on August 15, Amole started reading her autobiography. It’s taken him four years to bring her story to the screen. The film will be shot over the next four months.