Matchbox Photographs, the Mumbai-based banner behind “Andhadhun,” “Monica O My Darling” (Netflix) and “Scoop” (Netflix), is backing “Shamed,” an official adaptation of Sarbjit Kaur Athwal’s memoir of the identical title.
The guide tells the real-life story of a British-Punjabi lady who, after witnessing her household conspire to kill her sister-in-law, mustered the braveness to testify towards them in open court docket. Her testimony led to the U.Okay.’s first bodiless homicide conviction.
For producer Sarita Patil of Matchbox Photographs, the challenge’s urgency was rapid. “What drew me to this story was the way in which it exposes the insidious violence that may reside beneath the floor of ‘blissful households’. Nevertheless it additionally affords a unprecedented template of resistance. It’s not solely a narrative of betrayal, however of braveness, of a lady who rises towards not possible odds,” says Patil, who sees “Shamed” as each cinema and advocacy, a movie that may catalyse long-overdue conversations round home violence inside South Asian communities globally.
Director-writer Dikssha Routray will probably be on the helm of the characteristic movie adaptation which is a part of the WAVES Movie Bazaar Co-Manufacturing Market. Routray has labored as a artistic producer on Hindi-language movies “Andhadhun” (2018) and “Merry Christmas” (2024) and has led quite a few different movies and sequence for Matchbox Photographs through the years in addition to directing the brief movies “The Splendid Bride” and “Crimson Velvet.”
Matchbox Photographs is actively looking for worldwide co-producers by means of WAVES Movie Bazaar. Some 25% of the funds is already secured. “For “Shamed,” we’re strategically leveraging co-production markets, non-public fairness, and home and worldwide rebates to construct a powerful monetary construction going ahead,” says Patil.
The market is the primary official outing of “Shamed,” which is within the closing levels of script refinement, with manufacturing focused for 2027. “Along with our established work, we’re deeply dedicated to nurturing and supporting rising expertise. At Matchbox, we offer a platform for brand spanking new voices to interrupt by means of, providing them the chance to shine and contribute to the way forward for storytelling,” Patil provides.
WAVES Movie Bazaar is the market part of the Worldwide Movie Competition of India (IFFI), Goa.
