this story originally appeared in on nov 26 2018the actor joins hands with nikkhil advani and bhushan kumar to bring to the screen an iconic 1911 football match that marked a defining moment in the countrys freedom strugglefor over five years john abraham has been living with a dream a football enthusiast who owns his own team northeast united fc the actor has been waiting to bring one of indias most historic matches to the screen which date back to 1911 in fact it was this definitive year in indian history that has given the film its title its johns pet project his face lights up whenever he narrates the story which he knows backwards smiles nikkhil advani his director and production partner in another truelife drama based on the 2008 batla house encounter which is currently being filmed in lucknownikkhil goes on to reveal that john had offered him 1911 even before he approached him with batla house and through the shoot of satyamev jayate earlier this year they were working on the script the film is expected to roll in november 2019 and will be shot in kolkata over the next three months targeting a mid2020 release the duo will be collaborating with bhushan kumar with whom they recently inked a sixfilm dealthe mohun bagan athletic club was established in 1889 by three aristocratic bengali families bose mitra and sen in north kolkata the team won its first trophy the coochbehar cup in 1904 after subedar major sailen basu the first highranking indian officer of the 49th bengal regiment took charge as club secretary in 1900 after being knocked out in the second round for two years the club started its indian football association ifa shield campaign in 1911 on july 10 against st xaviers the side was captained by shibdas bhaduri with abhilash ghosh as the centre forward and srischanda habul sarkar as inside forward rajendranath sengupta in the midfield and bhuti sukul as the right back and hiralal mukherjee as the goalkeeper sudhir chatterjee was the only one in the team who wore boots and shibdass brother bijoydas was the oldest player at 30the team notched up one win after another and after a fiercely fought semifinal against the army team 1st middlesex regiment which went into a replay mohun bagan made it to the final where it was up against east yorkshire regiment an elite branch of the british army july 29 was a landmark date in indian sport when around 100000 spectators turned up at the calcutta football ground the match kicked off at 530 pm and the indians were a match for the better trained british players till 15 minutes into the second half when opponent captain jackson scored with a freekick black kites flew into the sky with the score ten minutes before the final whistle the indian captain scored after that it was a fight to the finishive been wanting to make a film set in kolkata talking about its people