Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Mandvi Hekps Discover The Million Dollar Arm

"The Daily Show" regular Aasif Mandvi has joined the baseball drama biopic Million Dollar Arm says Deadline.


The film is based on the true story of how sports agent J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm) and his partner Aash Shah (Mandvi) discovered professional pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel through a reality show he staged in India using cricket players.

Alan Arkin will play a retired baseball scout. "Life of Pi" star Suraj Sharma co stars

Tom McCarthy ("Win Win") wrote the script from which Craig Gillespie's going to call action.

Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Joe Roth and Palak Patel will produce the film.

Shooting begins next month in Mumbai and Atlanta.

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