In ‘In the Ring,’ Mithila Palkar and Jaaved Jaaferi will appear alongside Bangladeshi actor Siam Ahmed. The movie is a psychological drama about Shama, a 17-year-old boxer who swaps places with her duplicate to fight in the national championship when she is blamed in her aunt’s assassination, according to reports. It is set in the female Muslim boxing society of Khidderpore, Kolkata, India.
The project also includes Razia Shabnam, one of the first Indian women to become an international boxing referee and instructor. Alka Raghuram, a US-based director who earlier filmed the renowned documentary ‘Burqa Boxers,’ about Muslim female boxers in Kolkata, will helm the Hindi-language feature.
The son of comedian Jagdeep is Javed Jaffrey. He voiced the antagonist in both Pixar’s The Incredibles and Disney’s Jungle Book 2, as well as dubbing Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Don Karnage in Hindi for Disney. In the animated movie Roadside Romeo, he portrayed Charlie Anna, a collaboration between Yash Raj Films and Disney. He has made comments on the Japanese TV shows Takeshi’s Castle and Ninja Warrior on Pogo TV and Hungama, respectively.
He has engaged in the advertising industry as a model, performer, copywriter, director, and director since 1980. He’s been in the Maggi Hot & Sweet Sauce commercials for the past 25 years.
On BIG 92.7FM, Jaffrey hosted Big Googly, which he established with Paritosh Painter. Since 2015, he has also presented Once More on Epic channel, where he discusses Bollywood movies from the 1970s to 1990s in a comedic approach.
Jaffrey has been given life membership in the Asian Academy of Film and Television’s International Film and Tv Club. He was also the 2015 India International Animation and Cartoon Movie Festival’s brand ambassador. Meri Jung, a 1985 film, provided him his first chance to play a villain and demonstrate his dancing abilities in cinema. With the introduction of cable television, especially Channel and its caustic sense of humour, he was able to carve out a niche for his kind of comedy. He was dubbed “television’s first true superstar.”