Anup Singh, director of “Qissa” and “The Song of Scorpions,” is directing a new short film, “Lasya: The Gentle Dance,” shot on Mumbai’s streets, produced by Mumbai-based Pretty Pictures. “The Gentle Dance” follows a father and son, beggars on Mumbai’s roadside, over the course of a day in their lives. Monsoon rains repeatedly destroy their
Ranveer Singh‘s “Pralay,” an end-of-the-world action thriller, has begun filming in Mumbai. The film is produced by Ananya Birla’s Birla Studios, Hansal Mehta and Sahil Saigal’s True Story Films and Singh’s Maa Kasam Films. Singh, who headlines the project, also serves as a producer on the film, which is directed by Jai Mehta. One of
A new original series exploring the life of Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh is in development at Collective Studios’ Historyverse. The project is being made in association with Hathiramani Commercial Ventures and co-produced with investor and entrepreneur Manish Hathiramani, who marks his producing debut with the show. The series is designed to move past the
The family living in the house that “Rehmat” uses as Rashid Ali’s ancestral home lost a son to a drug overdose shortly after Indian filmmaker Gurvinder Singh and his crew first met them. Singh tells Variety, “The actual family that lives there lost their 19-year-old son after we met them for the first time. When
