Karbi-language indie function “Love You Messi,” from India’s Rura Rura Leisure, has connected U.Ok.-based Hong Kong artistic Hiu Man Chan as government producer following co-production conferences on the Indian Pavilion through the Cannes Film Market.
Chan will oversee the challenge’s worldwide packaging – dealing with gross sales, competition technique, distribution and advertising and marketing throughout markets outdoors India, operated by the U.Ok.
Directed by Khanjan Kishore Nath and produced by Ranjit Teron, “Love You Messi” is the pair’s second Karbi-language function collectively after “Lost Path” (2025). The movie is at present in manufacturing, with parts already shot throughout Lionel Messi‘s go to to India final December.
Set in a distant hilly village in Northeast India, the story follows eight-year-old Rang, a Karbi tribe boy with a single consuming ardour – soccer – whose idol is Messi. He catches Messi’s matches on a neighbor’s tv and tracks down each {photograph} of him he can discover. When Rang adopts an deserted pet he names Tung Tung, the canine turns into his steadfast companion. The narrative shifts when Rang learns that Messi is to play a pleasant match in Mumbai, 1000’s of kilometers from his village, sparking an unlikely street journey for boy and canine.
“If you think ‘Love You Messi’ is a film about football [soccer] or about Lionel Messi, then you are mistaken,” Nath tells Selection. “It is not really about football, nor is it about Messi alone. At its heart, the film is about a disabled child’s passion and his longing to discover a world far beyond the boundaries of his small village. It is a story about love, care, humanity, and the courage to chase a dream against all odds.”
“I want to tell this story against the breathtaking landscape of the hilly district of Karbi Anglong, a place where life moves in its own rhythm and beauty flourishes differently,” he provides.
“Hong Kong, my hometown, has a huge number of Messi fans, despite his absence during his tour to the special region,” Chan says. “This film will appeal to the city, where it has an immediate concentrated audience. Being a Messi fan myself, it’s a real joy to be able to join this project and serve as an executive producer. I hope my European network and dynamic approach to international market can help this project to reach the furthest it could.”
Nath obtained the Rajat Kamal on the Indian Nationwide Movie Awards in 2020 for his brief fiction “Kachichinithu” (The Boy with a Gun). He holds an M.Phil in Mass Communication from Rajiv Gandhi College and studied filmmaking on the Zee Institute of Media Arts in Mumbai.
The manufacturing goals to finish filming by the tip of the 12 months.
