Indian actor Supriya Pathak Kapur will make her directorial debut with “Our Story,” a loose biographical feature co-written with her daughter Sanah Kapur and developed as a collaboration between her banner Rabasusah and Australian production company Films and Casting Temple. The project was unveiled in Cannes.
Australian-Indian filmmaker Anupam Sharma boards as lead producer. Ruhaan Kapur will serve as associate director and creative producer.
The film draws on the lives of three women across three generations of Pathak Kapur’s family: herself, her mother, the thespian Dina Pathak, and her daughter Sanah Kapur, who shares the screenplay credit. “Our Story” will be packaged with heads of department from both India and Australia and positioned for international sales and distribution.
“‘Our Story’ is deeply personal to me. It draws from memory, family, womanhood and the emotional inheritance that shapes who we become. To begin my journey as a director with a story so close to my heart, and to do so as an India-Australia collaboration, makes this all the more meaningful,” Pathak Kapur said.
Forum Films has acquired theatrical distribution rights in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The film is set to make its first market outing at the Toronto Market under TIFF in September.
