Women’s Rights Drama ‘Just Like Her Mother’ From Civic Studios Sets Up at Film Bazaar

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Naman Ramachandran U.K. and India-based production company Civic Studios is presenting “Just Like Her Mother,” a series exploring the women’s rights movement through an intergenerational story, at India’s Film Bazaar co-production market.

Venice Film Festival winner Ruchika Oberoi (“Island City”) is in talks to direct. The series follows a daughter’s investigation into her mother’s disappearance, while examining the evolution of women’s rights in India from the 1970s to present day.

Civic Studios, a media company rooted in social impact storytelling, was founded with the mission of creating content that drives change.

The company slate includes projects from Gurinder Chadha and Pan Nalin. “This is a story we’ve developed in-house from the seed of the women’s rights movement in India,” says producer Anushka Shah. “It was one of the reasons for starting Civic Studios – to tell stories of social movements that offer cinematic scope of what change takes.” Co-writer Roohi Bhatia says the series explores “what it takes to embark on a journey of being and becoming” in a patriarchal world. “While being deeply intimate and personal, we wanted the story to draw the thread to the political,” she notes. “Inspired by our own lived experiences of family, love, and trauma, we were drawn to how much has changed—and how much remains the same.