The film 'Amri' also stars Emily Watson, Jaideep Ahlawat, Jim Sarbh, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in key roles.
Filmmaker Mira Nair has unveiled the first look of her upcoming feature 'Amri', inspired by the life and art of pioneering modern Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. The film stars Anjali Sivaraman as Sher-Gil.
The biopic also features Emily Watson as her mother, Marie-Antoinette Gottesman, Jaideep Ahlawat as her father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Krisztián Csákvári as Victor Egan, Anjana Vasan as Indira Sher-Gil, Jim Sarbh as Karl Khandalavala, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Madame Azurie.
Apart from acting in the film, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is also serving as an executive producer on the project directed by Nair and produced by Samudrika Arora, Michael Nozik, and Nair.
Set across Hungary, France and India in the early 20th century, the film traces the worlds of Europe and India that shaped Sher-Gil’s imagination and artistic vision. The makers said the film wrapped production this week after shooting across locations in India and Europe.
“Every film I’ve made in the last several decades has been inspired by the art of Amrita Sher-Gil. She taught me how to see. She absorbed the best European training to distill the soul of India in a way that no one ever had — it is this distillation that has informed my own cinema from the beginning. The bravery of her palette, color and framing of the ordinary people of India has eternally moved me,” Nair told Deadline.
Amri explores Sher-Gil’s coming of age as an artist and a woman, her search for selfhood, her defiance of convention and her determination to create a visual language of her own, according to the makers.
