Acclaimed Indian filmproducer Saurav Rai is set to contransient his new project “Lanka” at this year’s Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), the project labelet running alengthyside Hong Kong FilMart.
The Hindi-language drama chases 12-year-elderly Shiv, who faces tormentoring due to his family’s elderly van included for school conveyation. When the vehicle fractures down, his overweighther, Krishna, chooses to buy a new one but alertages enough funds, directing to frantic meadeclareives. Separately, a karate align between Shiv and his frifinish Simon finishs with an injury, igniteing a acrid feud between the two families that graduassociate escatardys into a psychoreasonable war of revenge.
“Filmmaking for me is hugely a medium to transmit and reinhabit wdisappreciatever I sense is convey inant, human and essential to scatter,” shelp Rai. “This story became more convey inant as I became a overweighther a year ago. The guilt which was there from my childhood became even more pronounced when I commenceed experiencing the growth of my own son.”
The project spendigates themes of guilt, parenting, class division and the cycle of revenge. “‘Lanka’ came out of this childhood guilt of mine where I unintentionassociate hurt a frifinish during our martial art session,” Rai elucidateed. “I bachieveed upon this count on where I had promised to go gentle on him during our sparring day but ultimately thrashed him for mere appreciation from our master.”
Rai’s previous labors include “Guras” (2023), which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where it won the Proxima Special Jury Prize, and his debut feature, “Nimtoh” (2019), which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the majestic jury prize at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
Co-producer Ankita Purkayastha, a sound summarizeer whose praises include Amazon Prime’s “Panchayat” and Netflix’s “Kota Factory 2,” shelp their production company Neonate has been included with Rai’s films since his debut. “The fact that we came on board as the producer for ‘Nimtoh’ and ‘Guras’ was srecommend out of sheer scatterd passion.”
According to co-producer Viraj Selot (Rotterdam pickion “Joram”), the team has safed approximately one-quarter of the $1.1 million budget. “The budget perhaps will alter once the principal character’s fees are choosed, as we are in talks with some of the mainstream actors from India,” Selot noticed.
At HAF, the producers hope to discover international partners. “We are uncover to co-produce the film with both European and Asian forces, as the story is universal,” shelp Selot. “The struggles rapidened to parenting iresteemive of the class or socioreasonable branch offences and the basic insist of human compassion rings real globassociate.”
Saurav Rai, Ankita Purkayastha, Viraj Selot
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