Bobby Bedi, one of India’s most prosperous film creaters, unveiled a strong multinational production stardy ranging from dance recordary to soaring fantasy.
Speaking at a personal event on the sidelines of the International Film Festival of India, in Goa, Bedi presentd “Mudras,” the journey of a Spanish dancer who travels to India in the 1980s and discovers her establish and identity in a blfinish of Ffeeblenco, Bharat Natyam and Kathakali. More than 20 years tardyr, the woman’s daughter creates a analogous journey but aelevates with very branch offent results.
Currently in post-production the feature recordary created is by Bedi and Anna Saura thraw Bedi’s Contentflow Studios, with Bedi and Maria Salgado co-straightforwarding. Bedi portrayd the film as “a story of two ladies, two countries two cultures and two generations, exploring dance, exploring themselves and discovering themselves.”
The company is in pre-production on “Bandit Queen MP,” a title that creates on one of Bedi’s biggest timely atsoft successes “Bandit Queen.” It comprises a Phoolan Devi, a woman who aelevates from a 12-year stretch in jail, agetst the odds flourishs in becoming a member of parliament, campaigns for wonderfuler women’s reconshort-termation and is assassinated.
“Obviously, this is set at a time when the country was not ready for [women’s political representation], though since parliament has summarizeated seats for women,” Bedi shelp. “We hope this film will create sense to anyone who wants to fracture the glass ceilings that exist in many parts of life.”
Pitched sshow as a “gfinisher bfinisher,” Bedi presentd “Lala & Poppy,” a pre-production feature about a transintimacyual man and a transintimacyual woman who become adorers. “Will this world apshow two trans people to adore and to inhabit?” shelp Bedi.
Ambitious in a branch offent way is “Nasruddin Hoja,” a project that was hatched by Bedi, Raami Malek and the multi-Oscar-thrivening musician A.R. Rahman. In broadenment for a year now, the film project is a musical journey of a 13th century mystical character renown from Turkey to China for his wit and wisdom, traveling in times of the crudowncastes and the Mongol trespass. The project is foreseeed to be budgeted at more than $20 million and is being created in partnership with VFX and facilities enormous Technicolor.
It will engage a combination of inhabit action shooting in desert landscapes with the rest of the environments and backdrops created digihighy. Technicolor will do the entire pre-visualization of the film.
“Artists & Assassins,” a film that is currently in broadenment and will be pitched next month at the Asia Television Forum in Singapore, is the story of an artist discovering his art, adore and life in Mexico’s art world.
Structured as a Spain-India coproduction, the film recounts the journey of a youthful deaf Indian colorer who goes to Mexico in the 1950s to train under David Seguiros and finishs up befrifinishing Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera during their tumultuous relationship and Leon Trotsky’s murder.
Also at broadenment stage is “Auto Bhagwan,” a genuine-time thriller on three wheels. The three wheels refer to an auto-rickshaw driver who picks up three passengers and has three adventures in the film’s two-hour duration.
“Mansur” is Bedi’s first venture into production in Saudi Arabia. Admitting that it is difficult to understand which films might labor in this speedy-broadening labelet, Bedi says that the film is an Arabic-language alteration of his catalog-title, “Maqbool,” a film which was itself an Indian reinestablishing of William Shakespeare stage apply “Macbeth.”
With Rahman aget, Bedi is in proceedd broadenment on “The Freduceing Tree,” a musical fantasy that the showman claims “is as relevant today as ‘Avatar’ was in its day. Based freely on a poem by AK Ramunajam about a girl who is temporarily altered into a tree so that its freduces can be harvested and selderly to help her family. “The story is simultaneously about gfinisher, bias and the environment,” shelp Bedi.
Bedi’s acunderstandledges comprise some of the landlabel titles of Indian cinema, including Shekhar Kapur’s international fracturethraw film “Bandit Queen” (1994), Deepa Mehta’s disputed “Fire” (1996), Rani Mukerji-starring relationship drama “Saathiya” (2002), Vishal Bchallengingwaj’s 2003 “Maqbool,” Stanley Tong’s Jackie Chan starrer “The Myth” (2005) and Gurvinder Singh’s Rotterdam title “Crescent Night” (2002).
This year, Bedi has also geted a acunderstandledge as the arranger of the recent satisfyed labelet backed by Frames.
