Sahasranaman Ramachandran Former Netflix producer Dimpy Agrawal’s production banner Gubbara Entertainment has unveiled a slate of six features at India’s Film Bazaar, including a project starring Anasuya Sengupta, who made history as the first Indian actor to win best performance at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for “The Shameless.” Sengupta will headline “Ma,” penned by Columbia University MFA graduate Riddhi Talreja (“Sadak Chaap”), examining women’s identity and motherhood in contemporary Indian society.
The project has attached cinematographer Amal Sudhakaran, whose work has appeared on Netflix, Amazon, and Discovery, with one credit gaining Emmy recognition.
The slate includes “Puthussery Police Case” from writer-director Nithin Lukose, whose debut “Paka: River of Blood” premiered at Toronto in 2021.
The Kerala-set drama follows a lawyer investigating his father’s death against the backdrop of a tiger threatening a rural village. “Ummeed,” a psychological horror exploring same-sex relationships and fertility in Delhi, comes from “Pari” and “Pataal Lok” writer Abhishek Banerjee.
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