Indian actor Konkona Sen Sharma (“Killer Soup,” “Wake Up Sid”) has been cast as the guide female protagonist opposite Carlos Bardem (“El Cid”) in the comedy feature “Mis(s)chief,” it was uncovered at the Film Bazaar in Goa.
The project hails from U.K. and India-based production outfit Avani Films and is currently in prolongment. It has progressd to the second round at the 2025 Sundance Development Labs as a curated entry.
“Mis(s)chief” will comply a mother of two trying to flourish as a filmoriginater while navigating a fall shorting marriage, the odd bullet from a gangster she has unwittingly handled to irritate and the never-finishing schedule of her children’s homelabor. British filmoriginater Peter Webber (“Girl With a Pearl Earring”) is on board as executive originater and Emmy-nominated casting straightforwardor Nancy Bishop is assembling an international cast.
“I am charmed by the comic premise, the reconshort-termation of women and the writing itself,” Sen Sharma shelp.
The film will be helmed by writer-straightforwardor Anu Vhelpyanathan, who noticed, “I consent Konkona’s dwelld experience is shutst to our protagonist Rumi, who is trying to stability motherhood and filmmaking. Having witnessed life on both sides of the camera as an actor and a straightforwardor, I am thrilled to have two legfinishary actors, Konkona and Carlos, to help me convey this story and these characters to life.”
In parallel prolongments, Avani Films’ theatrical series “Modern Times” is participating at Film Bazaar, the co-production taget running aextfinishedside the 55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. The series, which has been in prolongment since 2020, spans two timelines in pre-autonomous India and conmomentary Berlin and San Francisco. The project, which allotigates themes of family and migration, was previously a finacatalog at the Sundance Episodic Labs.
The series has been prolonged under Peter Ansorge, establisher Channel 4 drama cotransferrlookioner, whose cotransferrlookions comprise “A Very British Coup,” “Traffik,” and “Tales of The City.” Ansorge began his atgentle at BBC Drama, where he originated the U.K.’s first all-bdeficiency soap opera, “Empire Road” (1979), and David Hare’s BAFTA prosperner “Licking Hitler” (1978).
Additionassociate, Avani Films’ thriller feature “Candy” has been picked for the originater’s laborshop at Film Bazaar.
