Producer who made ‘Udaipur Files’ had planned movie on ‘ex-Muslim’ Wastik

“The film is not entirely a biopic of Salim Wastik. However, he is one of the main characters, and shooting will begin very soon,” Jani said.

Based on what Wastik has allegedly told police interrogators, sources said the film had been planned to include Wastik’s rebirth on the Internet as an activist opposed to Islam, and his survival after the grievous attack on him, allegedly by two brothers named Zeeshan and Gulfam, at his home in Loni, Ghaziabad on February 27.

Both attackers were killed within days in separate encounters by the Uttar Pradesh Police, who described them as “fanatics”.

But in a dramatic twist in the tale, Wastik was arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on April 24, who revealed that he was, in fact, Salim Khan alias Salim Ahmed – a kung fu instructor who had been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1997, but who had vanished in 2000 while on bail.

According to police, Wastik spent nearly 10 years in Haryana before he came to Loni and started a small business. He declared himself to be an “ex-Muslim” and started to post content on the Internet.

“He (Wastik) was arrested for a crime that he committed before turning into an ex-Muslim,” Jani said. “We will show that in the film as well. Whatever money we earn from this movie will be donated to the parents of the 13-year-old boy who was killed by Wastik in Delhi three decades ago,” he said.

The planned film, Jani said, would focus on Wastik’s life after he became an “ex-Muslim”, the attack on him, and the UP Police’s action against the attackers.

“I gave him Rs 1 lakh from my side and another Rs 1 lakh from people who wished him good health while he was undergoing treatment in hospital after the attack,” Jani said.

Jani’s earlier film, Udaipur Files, was released on August 8 last year. He said his team was currently working on two other films: Kala Hiran, based on the blackbuck poaching case of 1998 and the threats issued to actor Salman Khan by gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, and Kalki Sambhal, based on the communal riots in Sambhal in 1978.

According to police, Wastik – who identified himself as Salim Khan at the time – learned Shaolin kung fu at a martial arts school in Shamli in UP and landed himself a job as a physical instructor at a well known school in East Delhi. There, he, along with an accomplice, kidnapped the 13-year-old boy and demanded a ransom of Rs 30,000. But they ended up allegedly killing the boy and dumping the body in a drain.

Police identified Wastik based on his photo on his ID card from the kung fu academy in Shamli, and the fact that his father’s name (Noor Hasan), and wife’s name (Afsana) were the same as the ones he had submitted while getting his Aadhaar in 2015.