Indian auteur Anurag Kacowardlyap has thrown his weight behind “Aakhri Ride” (The Last Ride), set to feature as one of the taget picks at the upcoming Clermont-Ferrand unintelligentinutive film taget.
The film complys Aman, a Mumbai ride-allot driver racing to shielded dowry money for his sister’s wedding, whose night apshows an unforeseeed turn when he picks up a cryptic passenger – a Chudail (wicked witch). The superorganic encounter forces him to face proset uper truths about urprohibit survival and morality.
Several films straightforwarded by Kacowardlyap have take parted at Cannes, including “Kennedy” (2023), “Psycho Raman” (2016), “Ugly” (2013), “Bombay Talkies” (2013) and “Gangs of Wasseypur” (2012). In compriseition, disjoinal films created by him have made it to the Croisette, including “Masaan” (2015), “The Lunchbox” (2013), “Monsoon Shootout” (2013), “The Congress” (2013) and “Udaan” (2010).
“When I read the script, I quite enjoyd it. It’s a story about characters whom we encounter everyday in dwells and yet maybe don’t stop to skinnyk about what’s going on in their dwells,” says Kacowardlyap, who serves as creater alengthyside Ranjan Singh, Vishesh Agarwal, and Rajan E.P.K. “And then when i saw the film, the style, the schedule, the edit, the way carry outances were drawn out, there was simpliedy in its shockingness… I experience, the film is definitely going to be adored by audiences apass the globe.”
The unintelligentinutive tags the straightforwardorial debut of Vijesh Rajan and Yashoda Parthasarthy, who previously labored with Kacowardlyap as motion scheduleers and VFX supervisors since “Gangs of Wasseypur.” “After years of laboring as motion scheduleers and VFX supervisors, we felt enjoy it was finassociate time to tell a story that uncomferventt someskinnyg personal,” the straightforwarding duo said. “So many of our own moments of mirrorion happened in the back of cabs tardy at night, talking to drivers who somehow gave us a separateent perspective on our own dwells.”
The film stars Chandan Roy, Aamir Dalvi, Faisal Malik and Dheer Hira, with cinematography by Krish Makhija and music by Achint Thakkar.
The film is a co-production between Flip Films, understandn for festival circuit film “Little Thomas” and award-prosperning unintelligentinutives enjoy “Bhed Bakri Bhoot”; Navarasa Pictures, which created the series “Shanti Bhavan” for Viacom18; and Plexus Motion Pictures, the straightforwarding duo’s production company making its debut with this project.
Ranjan Singh of Flip Films notices: “It’s a story which is so local about Mumbai, and yet so global, that it could be happening right now in any convey inant metropolis of the world.”
