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Sudhir Mishra’s films are intimate human dramas that illuminate the politics of everyday life and are affected by the forces of socio-political reactionism. His early cinematic creations tackled the rejection of the values, forms, performance modes, and the style of the mainstream, commercial cinema with privileged entertainment values, spectacular display, and melodrama. His out-of-the-box thought process has helped him to establish aesthetic conventions and modes of production of the Hindi film industry, and has also challenged the boundaries between what is alternative and mainstream.

What Sudhir Mishra created was a vision of cinema as an expressive art form, an inspirational form, and a sense of connectedness to a larger and serious international and niche national artistic enterprise that is motivated by the drive to know and represent the world adequately. His films did not shy away from expressing reality in its broadest sense, highlighting varied aesthetic forms, demonstrating, and...

Veteran Indian filmmaker Sudhir Mishra’s latest venture is “Tanaav,” the Indian adaptation of Israeli global hit “Fauda.” The series is transposed from Israel and Palestine to the troubled area that is Kashmir and tells the story of a Special Covert Ops Unit.

” ‘Fauda’ is about two countries, Israel and Palestine and it is about two religions. We didn’t want to do that. This is not about religion. This is not about Hindu versus Muslim. This is India versus, let’s say, terrorism or another kind of extreme ideology,” Mishra told Variety.

About the decision to set it in Kashmir, Mishra says that the series needed to be in a “disturbed zone” and that he’s been familiar with Kashmir for years and tried to move away from the cliched representation of the state and treated it in a “nuanced, interesting way.”

Setting it in Kashmir, long a bone...

Exclusive: Actress Sandrine Holt (American Gigolo) has signed with Silver Lining Entertainment for management.

Holt can currently be seen on Showtime’s drama series American Gigolo, based on the 1980 film of the same name written and directed by Paul Schrader.

Other recent credits on the television side include AMC’s recently wrapped Better Call Saul, Prime Video’s The Expanse, Showtime’s Emmy winner Homeland, USA Network’s Mr. Robot, CBS’s MacGyver, Crackle’s The Art of More, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead and NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

The actress was previously a series regular on the CBS drama Hostages and recurred heavily on such hit series as House of Cards, 24 and The L Word. Her film credits include Terminator Genisys, Automatik Entertainment’s Air and Cédric Klapisch’s Chinese Puzzle, which had her starring alongside Amélie‘s Audrey Tautou.

Holt continues to be represented by APA.

Hitmaking Israeli producer Yes Studios and Indian content producing giant Applause Entertainment are extending their existing agreement into a full-scale partnership.

Applause, the content studio of the Aditya Birla Group, has previously adapted Yes’s “Your Honor” for SonyLIV and “Tanaav,” the reimagining of Yes’s “Fauda” bows on SonyLIV on Nov. 11. Applause also has a relationship with Armoza Formats and has adapted its “Hostages,” “La Famiglia” as “Mind the Malhotras” and the upcoming “Honey Badgers.” Earlier this year, Armoza’s head of international sales Sharon Levi joined Yes Studios as managing director.

“We’ve been just talking to Sharon about a whole new slate that we want to work with and in fact approach this business in an even more evolved manner where we get in faster and talk more about development at an early stage where we can do things together and collaborate, co-fund and build out content,...

Banijay Asia and Keshet International have struck a format adaptation deal for India.

Under the terms of the deal, Banijay Asia will option scripted formats from Keshet’s library and adapt them for the Indian audience.

Banijay Asia has adapted several international formats for India, both scripted and unscripted, including Keshet’s “Hatufim” as “P.O.W. – Bandi Yuddh Ke” and “The Baker and the Beauty.” Other local adaptations by Banijay include “Survivor,” “Ranveer vs Wild with Bear Grylls,” “Call My Agent Bollywood,” and “The Voice.”

Deepak Dhar, CEO and founder, Banijay Asia said: “Indian audiences have an insatiable palette for diverse stories and shows, and Banijay Asia strives to meet that demand by inking partnerships with a range of production networks from all around the world. Keshet International has a brilliant content library, and its prioritisation of quality content and storytelling with authenticity, perfectly aligns with our philosophy. Together,...