\'Slumdog\' and \'Life Of Pi\' fame teamed up as lead in \'Million Dollar Arm\'

While watching Oscar-winning film, \'Slumdog Millionaire\' apart from the lead pair, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, one can\'t go without noticing the sheer performance of the cunning older Salim, played by Madhur Mittal. Although he was in supporting role, he did left a mark!

Madhur Mittal has bagged the lead role, alongside \'Life of Pi\' fame, Suraj Sharma in Craig Gillespie\'s \'Million Dollar Arm\'. It\'s a biographical film based on the baseball pitchers, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, played by Suraj and Madhur, respectively. The filming will be done across three locations namely, Mumbai, Delhi and US. The film also stars, \'Mad Men\' actor, John Hamm, who has wrapped up his Mumbai shoots few days back.

Although, both Madhur and Suraj had small portions to play in their respective films, yet they delivered the path-breaking act. These both aspiring stars also share great bond with each other. While Madhur is from Mumbai, Suraj belongs to Delhi. Madhur said that Suraj isn\'t like a typical Delhite. He is half-Malayalee and half-Marathi! Also, they have lot more things in common.

With their progressive careers in Hollywood, both of them are planning to get shifted to US. Suraj is persuading film making degree from NYU and Madhur has grasped another Hollywood film, directed by \'Titanic\' actor, Bill Paxton.

Well, Madhur and Suraj are the newest on the best friends list of the glamour world, who are together hailing towards west to make it big in Hollywood. We wish them luck!