Trisha Goes to TV

The Aggarwal family is gathering at a secluded Scottish island, as the patriarch gets ready to announce his successor. Who will it be? The story is based on Trisha Sakhlecha’s third book, The Inheritance, which is all set to become a TV series full of secrets and lies. It is being developed by The Big Bang Theory actor Kunal Nayyar’s Good Karma Productions. Sakhlecha is the director of The Tagore Centre, Berlin. She is also the granddaughter of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister late Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha.

Unmukt Unbroken

When Unmukt Chand captained India’s Under-19 team to the World Cup in 2012, he had the world at his feet. But in 2021, he moved to the US. What went wrong? Unbroken: The Unmukt Chand Story captures the cricketer in his most vulnerable moments in a riveting documentary. Directed by Raghav Khanna, the film follows the cricketer and his family through their lows, showing the love and resilience required to keep a competitive sportsman going. “It’s a story that transcends sport,” says Khanna. The documentary shows that life is not merely about success.

Santhy’s World

Santhy Balachandran won a scholarship to Oxford and would have completed her doctoral thesis on the representation of diasporic Indian culture if she hadn’t decided to act. Balachandran’s anthropological training helped her co-create the world of the Malayalam fantasy Lokah. In Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra, she took the concept of the yakshi and transformed her into a benign spirit. In the new chapters, Lokah will explore the chathan and the odiyan. “With people repeating lines from the film, and Amul using the film on their billboard, I couldn’t be happier,” says Balachandran. “Lokah shows if an idea is exciting it can work, even if doesn’t have a precedent.” Made on a budget of ₹30 crore, Lokah has raked in ₹250 crore at the box office so far.

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