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CO-PRODUCTION

“Lioness,” an official Indo-U.Ok. co-production being made below the 2008 bilateral treaty, will star Aditi Rao Hydari (“Jubilee”) and Paige Sandhu (“Emmerdale”), it was revealed on the Cannes India pavilion on Tuesday.

Written and to be directed by Kajri Babbar (“Khoj”), the movie is impressed by the analysis of Peter Bance, the historian who wrote about Princess Sophia Duleep, one of many key leaders of the suffragette motion within the U.Ok., the Princess of Punjab, granddaughter of Maharajah Ranjit Singh and the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. The movie will inform the story of two British Punjabi girls residing within the U.Ok., a century aside. While Sophia’s story is rooted in historical past, the second story is a fictional story of Mehak Kaur an informed, married immigrant lady residing in 1990’s Southall.

Bance can also be one of many govt producers on the movie, which is produced by Vivek Rangachari, Vaishalli Paatil, Faraz Ahsan and Clare Cahill with Ajit Pal Singh serving as govt producer. The challenge has been licensed by the National Film Development Corporation and the British Film Institute, the filmmakers stated.

English Heritage can be unveiling a plaque at Hampton Court, U.Ok., in reminiscence of the princess on May 26.

TRAILER

Temple has revealed a trailer for “Brand Bollywood – Down Under,” directed and written by Anupam Sharma (“The Run”) and co-written and edited by Karin Steininger (“Remember Anne Frank”). The characteristic documentary appears to be like on the ‘Bollywoodization’ and globalization of Indian cinema by its 89-year-old relationship with Australia. The movie explores the successes and failures of Bollywood’s rise as a critical subculture in Australia and options well-known practitioners together with Anupam Kher.

The trailer was launched at Cannes and comes on the eve of an Australia-India movie co-production treaty which was mentioned at a panel on co-production on the India pavilion on May 17 within the presence of Indian Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L. Murugan together with Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason and head of content material Grainne Brunsdon.

The movie can have a theatrical launch by Forum Films, in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji after screenings round Australia.

Watch the trailer right here: