Siddharth
Roy Kapur has signed director Vinil Mathew and screenwriter Sudip Sharma for
his next film to be produced under the Roy Kapur Films banner.
Vinil
Mathew is a renowned ad filmmaker who made his feature film debut with the
acclaimed new-age romance, Hasee Toh Phasee. Sudip Sharma is the acclaimed
writer of NH10 and Udta Punjab, and is
widely acknowledged as one of the foremost screenwriters in the country.
Siddharth
Roy Kapur confirmed the news, “Yes, we will be collaborating with Vinil and
Sudip on a unique and exciting subject that our team has been developing for
many months. The film is based on true events involving piracy on the Somalian
high seas and is told through the eyes of a young Indian merchant navy officer,
who has to navigate through unimaginably perilous circumstances, while dealing
with huge personal challenges. It is a thrilling, dramatic and emotional
journey, and we couldn’t have asked for a better director than Vinil Mathew to
tell this story. Vinil’s work in advertising is amongst the most accomplished I
have ever seen. He has a unique ability to move you emotionally and to draw you
into a narrative within the span of less than a minute. To have Sudip on board
as screenwriter for the film is a huge advantage, as he unfailingly creates
memorable characters, inhabits them in authentic worlds, and in the process
creates strong conflicts and riveting drama.”
When
Siddharth first heard the true story of merchant navy officer Audumbar Bhoi
whose ship and crew was attacked by Somalian pirates, he was gripped and
immediately felt that this was an incredibly unique and above all, an inspiring
human story that needed to be told on the big screen.
Vinil
said, “I have immense respect for Siddharth and his creative vision which is
evident in the films he has produced over the past decade. I have been looking
forward to working with him and when Siddharth shared this story with me, I
instinctively knew I had to be associated with the film as it had all the right
ingredients of emotion, drama and thrill. I am thrilled about our collaboration
and I’m sure it will be a great experience. We hope to give the audiences a
truly special film."
Sudip
said “I am normally wary of writing commissioned scripts for producers, but Sid
gives you a lot of creative freedom and lets you do your thing. I developed a
film for Disney when Sid was there, and thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with
him creatively. We’ve been meaning to work again with each other since, and
when he pitched this story to me, I just jumped at it because it has the
potential to be a tense hostage drama cum survival story, and lets you explore
Somalia and maritime piracy, a world hitherto unseen in Hindi films.”
Over
the past few months, Vinil and Sudip have conducted intensive research on the
Indian merchant navy life, as well as on the Somali piracy problem and its
impact on the many Indian families that have been affected by it.
It
is anticipated that the film will go on the floors in the second half of 2018.
Roy
Kapur Films has various other noteworthy film projects in the pipeline,
including a biopic on Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space, written by
Anjum Rajabali and to be directed by Mahesh Mathai; Dangal director Nitesh
Tiwari’s next film, based on the book “How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a
Million Dollar Company", Shubh Mangal Savdhaan director RS Prasanna’s next
film, and a film based on the true story of Vijendra Singh Rathore, the heroic
Alwar-based truck driver who found his wife after a 19 month-long search in the aftermath of the
Uttarakhand flash floods.
In
addition to producing films, Roy Kapur Films has marked its foray into digital
media by entering into a landmark multi-year partnership with Reliance Jio to
produce original video content including digital series and Made-for-Jio films
for millions of Jio subscribers across India.
Siddharth
Roy Kapur is the eminent producer of several critically acclaimed and
commercially successful films like Dangal, ABCD2, Haider, Barfi and Kai Po Che. He believes in
setting new benchmarks with every project he backs. He has founded his own
production company Roy Kapur Films earlier this year after a long and successful
stint at Disney and UTV. He is also the
President of the Producers Guild of India and was recently named as one of
Variety’s Top 500 influential people in
entertainment globally, amongst only 12 Indians
to feature on this list.
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