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A.R. Rahman, Bobby Bedi, Technicolor Team on ‘Fiddler on the Roof’-Style Musical Based on Middle Eastern Folklore Character Mulla Nasruddin (EXCLUSIVE)
Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman, producer Bobby Bedi and Technicolor have unveiled a film based on Middle Eastern wit Mulla Nasruddin at Cannes.
Bedi’s credits include some of the landmark titles of Indian cinema, including Shekhar Kapur’s international breakthrough film “Bandit Queen” (1994), Deepa Mehta’s controversial “Fire” (1996), Rani Mukerji-starring relationship drama “Saathiya” (2002), Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Macbeth” adaptation “Maqbool” (2003), Stanley Tong’s Jackie Chan starrer “The Myth” (2005) and Gurvinder Singh’s Rotterdam title “Crescent Night” (2002). “I was mentioning, why can’t we do a musical almost like ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ That era is very beautiful, because it was a melting point of many different cultures of education, art, science, astronomy, extraordinary things were happening. Rahman and Bobby Bedi will have Technicolor’s MPC, a world leader in VFX and CG, participating in bringing the story to life through their artistic visualization.
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