Exclusive: Freida Pinto and her Freeboard Films Entertainment label have boarded Kiranmala & the Kingdom Beyond, the animated kids TV show we first told you about earlier this year.
Pinto will voice the Moon Maiden, the biological mother to the lead character, Kiranmala, and will executive produce the series alongside her producing partner Emily Verellen Strom through their Freeboard Films banner.
The story follows a New Jersey 12-year-old girl who discovers she might be a real Indian princess as she is swept into a fantastical world of magic, winged horses, moving maps and annoying, talking birds and forced to fight demons and solve riddle to find her lost parents and save the world.
Published by Scholastic, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond debuted in 2018 with The Serpent’s Secret. It won several book awards, with Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: Game of Stars following in 2019 and entering the New York Times bestseller list. A third book,...
Pinto will voice the Moon Maiden, the biological mother to the lead character, Kiranmala, and will executive produce the series alongside her producing partner Emily Verellen Strom through their Freeboard Films banner.
The story follows a New Jersey 12-year-old girl who discovers she might be a real Indian princess as she is swept into a fantastical world of magic, winged horses, moving maps and annoying, talking birds and forced to fight demons and solve riddle to find her lost parents and save the world.
Published by Scholastic, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond debuted in 2018 with The Serpent’s Secret. It won several book awards, with Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: Game of Stars following in 2019 and entering the New York Times bestseller list. A third book,...
- 5/10/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Middle grader book series Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond is getting the animated television adaptation treatment.
Undone and The Kollective producer Submarine and Rebel Maverick have teamed to create a TV version of Sayantani DasGupta’s book series. DasGupta will adapt the stories with animation writer veteran and Emmy winner Michael Ryan.
Published by Scholastic, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond debuted in 2018 with The Serpent’s Secret. It won several book awards, with Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: Game of Stars following in 2019 and entering the New York Times bestseller list. A third book, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: The Chaos Curse, published in 2020, while a spin-off series, Force of Fire, published a year and a third trilogy, The Secrets of the Sky, launched in July last year.
The first book trilogy will be the focus on the TV series. Ryan and DasGupta will write the pilot,...
Undone and The Kollective producer Submarine and Rebel Maverick have teamed to create a TV version of Sayantani DasGupta’s book series. DasGupta will adapt the stories with animation writer veteran and Emmy winner Michael Ryan.
Published by Scholastic, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond debuted in 2018 with The Serpent’s Secret. It won several book awards, with Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: Game of Stars following in 2019 and entering the New York Times bestseller list. A third book, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: The Chaos Curse, published in 2020, while a spin-off series, Force of Fire, published a year and a third trilogy, The Secrets of the Sky, launched in July last year.
The first book trilogy will be the focus on the TV series. Ryan and DasGupta will write the pilot,...
- 3/1/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The popular Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival is returning after a three-year Covid and logistics-related absence with a hub, a refreshed executive team and a host of plans.
Hollywood and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra Jonas continues as festival chair, while media veteran and former Variety contributor Anupama Chopra remains festival director and independent producer Anu Rangachar (Locarno title “Rapture”) heads up the international program. Alongside them is a new team including Deepti DCunha, who previously advised Cannes and Film Bazaar, as artistic director; former Lionsgate India content head Maitreyee Dasgupta as co-director; producer Anupama Bose (Rotterdam title “Joram”) as artistic director, Jio Mami year round program; and Abhishek Kumar as head of marketing, PR and sponsorship.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s media conglomerate Jio remains the title sponsor of the festival, which is operated by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami). The new, glittering Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre will be the festival hub.
Hollywood and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra Jonas continues as festival chair, while media veteran and former Variety contributor Anupama Chopra remains festival director and independent producer Anu Rangachar (Locarno title “Rapture”) heads up the international program. Alongside them is a new team including Deepti DCunha, who previously advised Cannes and Film Bazaar, as artistic director; former Lionsgate India content head Maitreyee Dasgupta as co-director; producer Anupama Bose (Rotterdam title “Joram”) as artistic director, Jio Mami year round program; and Abhishek Kumar as head of marketing, PR and sponsorship.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s media conglomerate Jio remains the title sponsor of the festival, which is operated by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami). The new, glittering Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre will be the festival hub.
- 8/25/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sujan Dasgupta, the creator of popular Bengali detective Ott series character ‘Ekendra Sen’ alias ‘Eken Babu’, died at his residence here on Wednesday. He was 80. According to the police, his body was recovered from his residence at a housing complex adjacent to the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass on Wednesday morning. Police sources said that Dasgupta was staying alone since his wife had gone for a trip to Santiniketan.
On Wednesday morning, the domestic help working at his residence could not get any reply even after repeatedly pressing the calling bell as well as banging the door. The domestic help then informed his neighbours who informed the local Survey Park police station.
The cops came and broke open the door and recovered his body from his bedroom. The body has been sent for post-mortem.
Police sources said that in all probability, there is nothing unnatural in his death.
“But given the circumstances...
On Wednesday morning, the domestic help working at his residence could not get any reply even after repeatedly pressing the calling bell as well as banging the door. The domestic help then informed his neighbours who informed the local Survey Park police station.
The cops came and broke open the door and recovered his body from his bedroom. The body has been sent for post-mortem.
Police sources said that in all probability, there is nothing unnatural in his death.
“But given the circumstances...
- 1/18/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Recently, probably due to the pandemic and how it re-ignited the discussion about those issues, class seems to be the focus of many works, in film, in literature and other media. However, while we often tend to concentrate on how these topics are represented in our culture, oftentimes taking a look at their relevance in other countries and culture is quite eye-opening, as it shows facets of the concept we have not recognized yet for some reason. In the case of director Anshul Tiwari, it was writer Debashmita Dasgupta who opened his eyes to the machinations of that particular issue within Singaporean society, which not only provided an important insight for him as a documentary filmmaker, as he tells Variety, but also the foundation for his feature debut “Before Life After Death”, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Singapore International Film Festival.
“Before Life After Death” review is part...
“Before Life After Death” review is part...
- 11/29/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
A veteran of several short and documentary subjects, Anshul Tiwari’s narrative feature “Before Life After Death” has its world premiere in the Panorama strand of the Singapore International Film Festival.
In the film, a rebellious female student and a reticent middle-aged gynecologist, both of Indian origin, strike up an unlikely bond as they each confront a life-altering incident.
“Being a documentary filmmaker in the region gave me unique insight and access into Singapore’s civil society. The writer, Debasmita Dasgupta, created a narrative around the disparity between working and upper-class Singaporeans of Indian origin. She and I spoke a lot about sisterhood and how sometimes a woman’s best friend is another woman despite [her] being a stranger,” Tiwari told Variety. “People often talk about the fault lines where Singapore’s diversity has clear-cut boundaries despite sharing the same space. But we have seen a different side to Singapore where intercultural commingling is so natural,...
In the film, a rebellious female student and a reticent middle-aged gynecologist, both of Indian origin, strike up an unlikely bond as they each confront a life-altering incident.
“Being a documentary filmmaker in the region gave me unique insight and access into Singapore’s civil society. The writer, Debasmita Dasgupta, created a narrative around the disparity between working and upper-class Singaporeans of Indian origin. She and I spoke a lot about sisterhood and how sometimes a woman’s best friend is another woman despite [her] being a stranger,” Tiwari told Variety. “People often talk about the fault lines where Singapore’s diversity has clear-cut boundaries despite sharing the same space. But we have seen a different side to Singapore where intercultural commingling is so natural,...
- 11/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Code Name: Tiranga
Written & Directed by Ribhu Dasgupta
It is easy to be dismissive of a film that doesn’t break new ground or doesn’t pretend to. A straightforward sharply-written film about a terrorist extraction gone wrong, Code Name: Tiranga packs in quite a punch in the action sequences.
Shot in the rugged locations of Turkey, this is a slow-burn thriller. Writer-director Ribhu Dasgupta has an interesting track record. He started his directorial career with the intriguing Naseeruddin Shah vehicle Michael and went on to do the riveting series Yudh with Amitabh Bachchan.
Code Name: Tiranga misses out on the strong performances of his earlier films. The actors are authentic, many of them local Turkish, others veterans of Hindi cinema like Rajit Kapur and Shishir Mishra, but never rising above the script at any point.
The real hero in this film is the cinematography by Tribhuvan Babu Sadineni, which...
Written & Directed by Ribhu Dasgupta
It is easy to be dismissive of a film that doesn’t break new ground or doesn’t pretend to. A straightforward sharply-written film about a terrorist extraction gone wrong, Code Name: Tiranga packs in quite a punch in the action sequences.
Shot in the rugged locations of Turkey, this is a slow-burn thriller. Writer-director Ribhu Dasgupta has an interesting track record. He started his directorial career with the intriguing Naseeruddin Shah vehicle Michael and went on to do the riveting series Yudh with Amitabh Bachchan.
Code Name: Tiranga misses out on the strong performances of his earlier films. The actors are authentic, many of them local Turkish, others veterans of Hindi cinema like Rajit Kapur and Shishir Mishra, but never rising above the script at any point.
The real hero in this film is the cinematography by Tribhuvan Babu Sadineni, which...
- 10/16/2022
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra, who is seen doing action sequences in ‘Code Name Tiranga’ talks about shooting for the film in Turkey under extreme weather conditions and temperatures below ten degrees.
She said: “There was a scene which was shot on a boat. During the shoot, it was around -10 to -11 degrees and the whole unit was completely covered up with jackets, mufflers, and masks whereas I was given a black half-sleeve T-shirt.
Nobody will know how many blankets were kept on my leg as we were on the boat and a strong wind was blowing and it was supposed to be my entry shot.”
The ‘Ishaqzaade’ actress added about her off-screen bonding and friendship with her co-star Harrdy Sandhu: “Director Ribhu(Dasgupta) sir said to stand like a hero and enter and I said I will enter like a heroine. But after that when Harrdy came to the location,...
She said: “There was a scene which was shot on a boat. During the shoot, it was around -10 to -11 degrees and the whole unit was completely covered up with jackets, mufflers, and masks whereas I was given a black half-sleeve T-shirt.
Nobody will know how many blankets were kept on my leg as we were on the boat and a strong wind was blowing and it was supposed to be my entry shot.”
The ‘Ishaqzaade’ actress added about her off-screen bonding and friendship with her co-star Harrdy Sandhu: “Director Ribhu(Dasgupta) sir said to stand like a hero and enter and I said I will enter like a heroine. But after that when Harrdy came to the location,...
- 10/15/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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