Earlier this year, ‘Mirzapur’ actor Ali Fazal and ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ actress Richa Chadha had instituted their joint production banner Pushing Buttons. And the company’s debut feature film project was announced to be a story titled ‘Girls Will Be Girls’. The film also became the only Indian project to be selected amongst the ten entries for the reputed Berlinale Talents Script Station 2021 program.
And now, in another recent development, ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ has reportedly (via Variety) received a subsidy/grant from Aide aux cinémas du monde of France. For the unversed, Aide aux cinémas du monde grants selective funding as a subsidy to foreign feature-length film projects either before or after a film project’s completion. Provided that the film is a co-production between a French production company and a non-French one, should have a non-French director, and should be made in the director’s native language.
Directed by AFI graduate Shuchi Talati, ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ apparently satisfies all the above conditions and the film will purportedly be granted around one-fourth of its production budget by Aide aux cinémas du monde.
Essentially a story based on the seldom explored territory of the contemporary mother-daughter relationship, ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ ostensibly takes place in a posh boarding school in a small hill town located in the Himalayas and the plot revolves around a rebellious sixteen-year-old girl named Mira and her distressed yet loving relationship with her mother.
Besides their debut production venture ‘Girls Will Be Girls’, Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha have also been busy with their forthcoming acting projects. The former would next be seen in Agatha Christie’s film adaptation ‘Death in the Nile’, Prakash Raj’s directorial ‘Tadka’, Vishal Bhardwaj’s espionage thriller ‘Khufiya’, and Gerard Butler starrer actioner ‘Kandahar’. While Richa Chadha’s upcoming acting projects include the web series ‘Six Suspects’ and Anubhav Sinha’s movie ‘Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai’.