Entertainment
Yes, Salman Khan Films will produce a film on Steve Banerjee, co-founder of Chippendales.
Updated : Sep 08, 2016, 10:23 AM IST
Salman Khan’s production house will produce a film based on the life of Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales. Somen or Steve Banerjee who started out as a male striptease artiste and died at the age of 54.
The biopic will start in Kolkata and move to Los Angeles and Europe as Banerjee had his businesses in London, Hamburg, Philadelphia and Florida. After operating a Mobil gas station and a backgammon club, he bought a Los Angeles club named Destiny II and turned it into a nightclub that featured female mud wrestling and an exotic dancing night where women danced.
It was the first of its kind in the United States. Salman plans to produce a film and develop it as a mini-series also.