Stargazer: Ambika Mod, Prateek Vats and Amara Karan
Among the Stars
The world cannot get enough of Ambika Mod ever since she broke through in Netflix’s One Day with Leo Woodall. Mod is appearing next in ‘Sacrifice’, a movie premiering on Netflix this month. The plot? A film star, played by Chris Evans, who is attempting a comeback, is abducted along with two others by a radical group led by Anya Taylor-Joy that believes that sacrificing three people to an active volcano will save humanity. A satire on modern celebrity culture, the film is over flowing with stars, including Salma Hayek Pinault and Vincent Cassel.
Perfect Frame
After stunning with his 2019 dramedy Eeb Allay Ooo!, Prateek Vats is set to start his next film ‘Chronicles of a Confession’. It revolves around a Kashmiri shawl-seller who confesses to a bomb blast he didn’t commit. Payal Kapadia and Anurag Kashyap are producing, along with Kavita Gupta of the US-based advisory Cineroost. Eeb Allay Ooo! premiered at the Pingyao Film Festival and screened at the Berlinale 2020 and at Tribeca’s first online edition.
By the Law
Best known for her role as a lawyer in The Night Of, Amara Karan appears as a mediator in the new HBO series War trying to ensure a peaceful settlement between a battling couple played by Dominic West and Sienna Miller. A Sri Lankan Tamil with parents who emigrated from Zambia to the UK, the 42-year-old is an Oxford-educated former investment banker and has a string of credits from British television.