Shipi is based on Uri's brother in law Shipi Shtrang who later became his manager.
Disregard Uri's childhood and the scene that is set at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney, 4 years after the movie's release, the main part of the movie is set in the time period 1969 (his first performance)-1974 (the US government experiments. Uri's marriage with Hannah is set in 1979.