Indian actor Supriya Pathak Kapur will make her directorial debut with “Our Story,” a unfastened biographical function co-written together with her daughter Sanah Kapur and developed as a collaboration between her banner Rabasusah and Australian manufacturing firm Movies and Casting Temple. The undertaking was unveiled in Cannes.
Australian-Indian filmmaker Anupam Sharma boards as lead producer. Ruhaan Kapur will function affiliate director and inventive producer.
The movie attracts on the lives of three girls throughout three generations of Pathak Kapur’s household: herself, her mom, the thespian Dina Pathak, and her daughter Sanah Kapur, who shares the screenplay credit score. “Our Story” shall be packaged with heads of division from each India and Australia and positioned for worldwide gross sales and distribution.
“‘Our Story’ is deeply personal to me. It draws from memory, family, womanhood and the emotional inheritance that shapes who we become. To begin my journey as a director with a story so close to my heart, and to do so as an India-Australia collaboration, makes this all the more meaningful,” Pathak Kapur stated.
Discussion board Movies has acquired theatrical distribution rights in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The movie is about to make its first market outing on the Toronto Market below TIFF in September.
Pathak Kapur is amongst India’s most acknowledged display performers, with credit spanning “Kalyug,” “Bazaar,” “Khichdi” and “Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela.” Sanah Kapur’s display work consists of “Shaandaar,” “Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi” and “Saroj Ka Rishta.”
“Supriya Pathak Kapur is one of the finest actors India has produced, and her move into direction with a story of this intimacy and scale is exciting in every way. We are proud to collaborate with her team and her new company and help shape ‘Our Story’ as a genuinely international film from the ground up,” Sharma stated.
The undertaking marks an extra step for Temple in constructing display collaborations between India and Australia.
