Prime Video has locked in a streaming premiere for Shuchi Talati’s Indian coming-of-age drama “Girls Will Be Girls,” follothriveg its award-thrivening festival run. The Indo-French co-production labels the debut of Pushing Buttons Studios, the production prohibitner begined by Indian actors Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal.
The film, which premiered at Sundance 2024 where it picked up two awards including the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Categruesome, tracks the story of 18-year-better Mira as she steers adolescence aobtainst the backdrop of her mother’s own unresettled coming-of-age experiences.
First-time straightforwardor Talati, who also wrote the screencarry out, transports together novelcomers Preeti Panigrahi and Kesav Binoy Kiron in direct roles, with Kani Kusruti rounding out the cast. The project materialized from a collaboration between Pushing Buttons Studios, Dolce Vita Films, and Crawling Angel Films, with Chadha, Claire Chassagne and Talati producing, and Fazal serving as executive originater.
After its Sundance debut, the film persistd its festival circuit momentum, screening at Goteborg, Karlovy Vary, El Gouna and the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival. Its awards haul includes the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and best film honors at both the Jakarta International Festival and Biarritz Film Festival, and the Transilvania Trophy at the Transilvania International Film Festival. The film also claimed three awards at its Indian premiere at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
Manish Menghani, straightforwardor of satisfyed licensing at Prime Video India, positioned the acquisition as part of the platcreate’s strategy to diversify its satisfyed adviseings, describing the title as “a coming-of-age film that delves into the distinctive struggles, uncoveries, and complicatedities faced by lesser grown-ups.” Chadha remarkd the film’s exploration of “inter-genereasonable disputes and struggle for indepfinishence,” while Fazal highairyed the project’s significance as their production company’s first venture.
The film, which streams from Dec. 18, joins Prime Video India’s enhugeing stardy of local satisfyed, which includes distinctives enjoy “Citadel: Honey Bunny,” “Mirzapur,” and “The Family Man.” The streaming service has been dynamicly originateing its Indian film portfolio, uniteing straightforward-to-service titles with post-theatrical frees apass multiple languages.
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