T-Series is gearing up to bring on screen, the ultra-intriguing story of the rise and fall of V.G Siddhartha, the founder of the Cafe Coffee Day chain of coffee outlets. The content giant has bought the adaptation rights of ‘Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Cafe Coffee Day Founder V.G Siddhartha’ the biopic on V.G Siddhartha, written by investigative journalists, Rukmini BR and Prosenjit Datta, to be published by Pan Macmillan India. Anish Chandy of Labyrinth Literary Agency is the brains behind the book.
Prabhleen Kaur Sandhu, of production company Almighty Motion Picture, is partnering T-Series in the adaptation of the Cafe Coffee Day founder’s biopic. Karma Media Entertainment’s Shaailesh R Singh is co-producer on the project.
The real life story of Cafe Coffee Day founder V.G Siddhartha is as thrilling as the best of thrillers. The man set up the first coffee retail chain in the country in the form of Coffee Cafe Day. He took it to stratospheric heights, such that there was a Cafe Coffee Day at every 2 kilometres in India’s major cities and towns. His meteoric rise was the stuff of dreams; his courage and conviction in realizing his passion, the stuff of case studies in premier management institutes. Then one day, it all came crashing down. And V.G Siddhartha’s chequered life ended tragically in death by suicide in the Nethravati river in Karnataka.
A film that captures all the nuances of the rise and fall of V.G Siddhartha should make for an intriguing and engaging watch. The book, ‘Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Cafe Coffee Day Founder V.G Siddhartha’ is a deeply researched work, which has taken great pains to bring out unknown facets of the great entrepreneur’s life. V.G Siddhartha was simultaneously the most humble businessman as well as an exceedingly ambitious one. The writers have tried to capture this contradiction in both the book and on screen.
The cast and crew of the project are still to be disclosed by the stakeholders. Stay tuned to Binged.com for further updates on the biopic of the founder of Cafe Coffee Day.