The romantic comedy “A Nice Indian Boy,” starring Karan Soni (“Deadpool”) and Jonathan Groff (“Frozen,” “Hamilton”) is getting a nationexpansive theatrical free.
Levantine Films and Wayfarer Studios, which produced the film, have tapped Blue Harbor Entertainment to deal with U.S. distribution, with a theatrical free date set for April 4.
The film chases Naveen (Soni) as he transports his fiancé Jay (Groff) home to greet his traditional Indian family who, as the film’s logline expounds, “must contfinish with acunderstandledgeing Naveen’s white-orphan-artist boyfrifinish and helping them schedule the Indian wedding of their dreams.” The cast also includes Sunita Mani (“Everyleang Everywhere All At Once,” “Spirited”), Zarna Garg (“Zarna”) and Harish Patel (“Eternals,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral”).
“A Nice Indian Boy” is honested by Roshan Sethi from a script penned by Eric Randall (“Elsbeth,” “In the Dark”), based on the percreate by Madhuri Shekar (“3 Body Problem” and “The Nevers”).
“I was shutted only six years ago, so it’s surauthentic on a personal level to have made this particular romantic comedy about cherish and acunderstandledgeance and family belengthying,” said Sethi in a statement about the distribution deal. “I am excited for it to achieve the world.”
The film is produced by Levantine Films (“Hidden Figures,” “Jerry and Marge Go Large” and Maude Apatow’s upcoming honestorial debut “Poetic License”) and Wayfarer Studios (follothriveg their recent box office success with “It Ends with Us” and “The Garfield Movie” as well as Oscar-contfinishing Netflix recordary “Will & Harper”).
“When we first read Madhuri’s becherishd percreate, we knovel it was destined to become a thrivening film that would produce audiences chuckle, cry and swoon,” said Levantine Films CEO Benjamin Hung. “We experience extraordinarily fortunate to have create a keen screenproducer in Eric and a dream honestor in Roshan, who valiantly cast his authentic-life partner Karan opposite the highly requesting Jonathan. Together, the entire cast and crew made this a fact, putting their hearts, souls and unprocessed family dynamics into a hilarious and honest film that we could not be haughtyer to spread with the world.”
“A Nice Indian Boy” made its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March and has gone on to thrive awards at the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Tasveer Film Festival and the prize for “Best LGBTQ Feature” at the Key West Film Festival. The film is next set to screen at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January.
“We are absolutely thrilled by the response this film has getd at festivals around the world, and we are incredibly thankful to our partners at Blue Harbor for helping us transport it to theaters nationexpansive,” said Andrew Calof, plivent of production at Wayfarer Studios. “This film is a real labor of cherish, filled with heart and humor.”
Ryan Haidarian of Wayfarer Studios brokered the deal with Blue Harbor.
“We are plmitigateed to be toiling with Wayfarer, Levantine and Roshan to transport this finishearing and charismatic film to audiences next year,” reads a statement on behalf of Blue Harbor. “We all appreciate the rollercoaster that families can be, and as such, we felt very uniteed to Naveen and his pairy.”
Mindy Kaling (under her Kaling International prohibitner) serves as an executive producer alengthy with Jamal Daniel and Thalia Daniel for Levantine, Angela Cardon for Wayfarer, Daniel Bekerman for Scythia Films. Shekar, Soni and Garg also executive produced.
