The Producer of ‘Life of Pi’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’s Tabrez Noorani are all set to take their next fabulous piece Love Sonia for a world premiere at Europe’s largest South Asian film festival.
The film will be opening The Bagri London Indian Film Festival 2018 which begins this 21st June 2018.
The Festival will be attended by Director Tabez Noorani, making his directorial debut. Also attending will be the cast of the film: Mrunal Thakur, Richa Chadha, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Sai Tamhankar and Riya Sisodiya. The festival will also be attended by the film’s Producer David Womark; Executive Producer, Pravesh Sahni; Co-Producer Amar Butala; Sound Mixer Resul Pookutty; Writer, Alkesh Vaja; Composer, Niels Bye Nielsen; Editor, Martin Singer; Production Designer, Ravi Srivastav; Makeup Artist, Virginia Holmes and Co-Producer, Nadim George.
Inspired by true events, Love Sonia is the shocking story of a young Indian village girl whose life is tumultuously and irrevocably changed when she gets entrapped in the global sex trade while trying to save the one person she is closest to, her sister Sonia.
The film has been shot in Jaipur, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles, and will be released in India this September. The film is based on an eye-opening story of Global Sex Trafficking and has a strong ensemble cast comprising of Hollywood as well as Bollywood actors, including Freida Pinto, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Richa Chadha, Anupam Kher, Adil Hussain, Sai Tamhankar, Sunny Parwar, Demi Moore, Mark Duplass, Noorani is introducing Mrunal Thakur as the lead character, as well as Riya Sisodiya.
Director Tabez Noorani was himself involved in a real-life rescue mission that took place in Hong Kong and India. Speaking about that and the film, he said:
“We were keen to make a project for a global platform which would speak volumes about an issue which is a terrible problem faced by almost every community, and which has not been adequately addressed. This movie attempts to cast light on this issue.”
Producer David Womark said:
“Both Tabrez and myself are proud to have Love Sonia open the Bagri London Indian Film Festival. Ang Lee has said that when there is a strong woman character in a story, it always grabs him. We are very fortunate in Love Sonia to tell the powerful story of a strong woman’s journey.”
