India’s Iroller Media and Leisure has partnered with Helsinki-based Norse Key Productions to deal with distribution of “Bicycle Thief” throughout Europe and the U.S.
Norse Key founder Maria Kivinen will oversee the distribution push for the movie, directed by Darshan Ashwin Trivedi. This marks the primary European-U.S. distribution deal for the Ahmedabad-based Iroller.
“Bicycle Thief” centres on Savji, a Dalit man who leaves the Saurashtra area of Gujarat in 1993, in search of work and dignity in Sanand, Ahmedabad after years below bonded labour. He pays INR200 (then $6.50) for a second-hand bicycle to safe a manufacturing facility job, solely to be arrested when police establish the bike as stolen. He spends two days in custody sustaining his innocence earlier than his life ends in tragedy. A parallel present-day strand follows a filmmaker named Rahul piecing collectively the reality of what occurred to Savji. Director Trivedi spent near a decade researching the true incident on which the movie relies, which he has described as an unresolved case forgotten from Dalit historical past.
The manufacturing is Trivedi’s seventh characteristic and a tribute to Italian neorealist Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 basic “Bicycle Thieves.” The solid contains Hemant Kher – finest identified for his position in Sony LIV’s “Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story” – alongside Samvedna Suwalka. The movie was produced by Milap Sinh Jadeja, Jignesh Patel, and Trivedi, with cinematography by Tapan Vyas and music by the duo Kedar-Bhargav.
“Norse Key is thrilled to add to its portfolio the first feature film from India which explores important human values and has a universal appeal,” Kivinen stated. “‘Bicycle Thief’ is exactly the kind of film that deserves to be seen and felt by audiences everywhere.”
Trivedi’s earlier options embrace “Mrugtrushna (The Other Side of the River),” which received the Gujarat State Award in 2022 and the Golden Butterfly Award for finest screenplay on the thirty third Worldwide Movie Pageant for Youngsters and Youth in Iran, and “Mara Pappa Superhero,” which took finest youngsters’s movie on the twentieth Annual Tiburon Worldwide Movie Pageant.
