Indian-origin British filmmaker Asif Kapadia had in 2019 made a documentary film titled Diego Maradona. In an interview with PTI, Kapadia had said, “In the mid-’90s, when I was a student I read a book about him. That was like the germ of the idea. This guy’s life is crazy, amazing and epic. At the time, I was still making short films. But I remember thinking that it will be great if one day I could make a film on Maradona. It took 25 years.”