Freida Pinto returns to Mumbai
Tabrez Noorani, the Indian producer of “Slumdog Millionaire”, will kick off his directorial debut, “Love Sonia” this month in and around Mumbai, which will reunite him with his Latika, Freida Pinto. Inspired by real events and written by Ted Caplan and Alkesh Vaja, the film is about a young Indian village girl whose life changes irrevocably when she is trapped in the vicious global sex trade network.
The film will be in Hindi with a smattering of Mandarin and English as the action moves to Hong Kong for two days and Los Angeles for a week. It also features Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Anupam Kher, Adil Hussain, Rajkummar Rao and Sai Tamhankar with casting still in progress. The title role is being played by Mrunal Thakur, who was selected after a year-long countrywide search from amongst 1,500 aspirants. In the process they also found Riya Sisodiya who plays her older sister Preeti. Oscar winning sound mixer and designer Resul Pookutty is also part of the project.
David Womark, the Academy Award nominated producer of “Life of Pi”, is producing the film. He plans to wrap up “Love Sonia” in LA by June and is targeting an India release in 2017.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
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