Actor Taapsee Pannu will play the lead role of Indian cricketer Mithali Raj in her next movie.

According to the sources, Taapsee will be seen in the biopic film on the Indian women's cricket team's former captain Mithali. The actor has already started rigorous training for the role and sources said that she has been taking batting lessons from none other than Mithali.

Sources expressed that the project was declared path back in September 2017. They further said that while Taapsee and the movie producers have agreed to do the film verbally, she is yet to sign the dotted line. A source stated,  'The formalities will be done once the studio has a director on board. They have also locked the story but the script is still being developed.'

By chance, it must be expressed that numerous biopics have been made on the male sports personalities of India. This is the first time when a biopic is being made on a woman sportsperson. It just demonstrates, how much Mithali has done to change the face of women's cricket in India.

For Taapsee however, playing a sportsperson isn't new. In Shaad Ali's Soorma, she played a hockey player while in her up and coming film Saandh Ki Aankh, she will be seen playing a sharpshooter alongside Bhumi Pednekar.

Taapsee has many interesting films in her kitty — she will be seen in the Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan starrer 'Mission Mangal', Anurag Kashyap's 'Saandh Ki Aankh' and in Prakash Raj's directorial 'Tadka'.

Taapsee is known for doing intense roles like the one she portrayed in 'Pink'. The film which also had Amitabh Bachchan was a runaway success.

'I really had to psyche myself out to understand a character who has gone through a dark incident and how her body and mind reacts. She is traumatized. It was quite exhausting emotionally and playing such roles surely takes a toll on me,' Taapsee was recently quoted as saying by a news agency.