, former MD of The Walt Disney Company India and current president of the Producers Guild of India, has picked up exclusive screen rights toWilliam Dalrymple’s bestselling historical epic.
The book received rave reviews including from Barack Obama, who named it among his top books of 2019. “When I read the book, I was so awestruck by the potential in the material. This is an important story to tell around the world,” he said. “It should be done in the right way, I’m in no hurry to jump in. I want to get the right creative talent associated with the project to give it the heft it needs for a global platform.”
“It would be great to get a collaborative, cross-cultural writers room in place, where you have talent from the U.S. and the UK as well as India, sitting together,” he continued. “The Indian writers will be able to bring their very local perspective, flavour, texture, character, and when it comes to structure, something of this magnitude, a lot of help can come from writers in the West who are trained in doing that.
Congratulations DalrympleWill The Company is in good hands!