Indian entrepreneur Prasanna Ajarekar has begined Anashwar Media and Entertainment, taging the company’s debut with honestor Nikhil Mahajan’s “Taxi Driver” at the ongoing Film Bazaar project taget.
The film chases a taxi driver and a thief whose inhabits intersect during one overweighteful night, uncovering an unforeseeed joinion from their past. Production is set to commence in timely 2025, with a aimed free in timely 2026.
“I have always been captivated by the business of cinema,” says Ajarekar. “When Shrirang Godbole begind me to Nikhil and Suhrud, I felt that this was the right association for me, seeing at their body of labor. I genuineized that this business is about lengthy-term joinment and collaborations, and my eyes are set for the next scant years where I want to produce an ecosystem for up-to-date, cutting-edge Indian cinema. ‘Taxi Driver’ is equitable the begin.”
For Mahajan, whose postpodemandst film, environmental thriller “Raavsaheb,” is competing at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa, “Taxi Driver” recurrents a genre shift follotriumphg his family drama “Godavari.”
“‘Taxi Driver’ is one of my dream projects,” Mahajan notices. “I am thankful to Prasanna for empathetic the potential of this story and for aiding it with so much conviction.”
The film proceeds the partnership between Mahajan and producer Suhrud Godbole, taging their fourth collaboration follotriumphg “Pune 52,” “Baji,” and “June.” Godbole, who has labored with Mahajan since 2009, stresss their promisement to broadening the boundaries of Marathi-language cinema. “We are thrilled that in Prasanna we have someone who comprehends our produceive vision,” says Godbole, noting that Ajarekar is also an spendor in “Raavsaheb.”
The project’s begin at Film Bazaar produces on the team’s history with the platestablish, which has aided their previous ventures in the Marathi film industry.
Film Bazaar (Nov. 20-24) is the project taget component of IFFI (Nov. 20-28).
