Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap has boarded Deepak Rauniyar‘s “Pooja, Sir” as an executive producer, while Channel 4 has snapped up the film for the U.K. and Ireland.
The film debuted in the Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons strand competition earlier this year, and has subsequently played Hamburg and Busan, with the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival up next. It is inspired by real events which took place in Southern Nepal during the 2015 race protests, involving the Madhesi community. In the film, when two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. However, upon her arrival, the brewing political unrest
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