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The 25-year friendship between director Ramin Bahrani and author Aravind Adiga proved fruitful when the The White Tiger landed an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. The Netflix thriller, written by Bahrani and based off Adiga’s 2008 novel, follows a poor man’s rise through the ranks of India’s caste system…

Priyanka Chopra, riding high on the strength of her starring and executive producing role in the Netflix hit White Tiger, is entering the restaurant business. She will be opening the Indian cuisine eatery SONA this month in New York City. The announcement was made by the actress on Saturday to her 60.9 million…

EXCLUSIVE: For nearly 15 years, director Ramin Bahrani and novelist Aravind Adiga shared a symbiotic relationship of inspiration that culminated into Netflix’s rags-to-riches drama The White Tiger. Bahrani’s 2005 feature Man Push Cart inspired Adiga, a former Columbia University classmate, to write The White Tiger, a…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set up Sheela, an intriguing drama that Barry Levinson will direct with Priyanka Chopra starring as Ma Anand Sheela, a guru who perpetrated what is called the largest bio-terrorist attack executed on U.S. soil. She was the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through…

Shonali Bose was first inspired to make The Sky is Pink when she met the parents of the late child activist Aisha Chaudhary. What emerged was a story told from Aisha’s point of view that focused on 25 years of her parents’ marriage. In the role of Aisha’s mother Aditi, Priyanka Chopra, whose Purple Pebble Pictures…

Paul Haggis and Dan Krauss's doc 5B—playing at Cannes as a special screening—seeks to shine a light on the history of the pioneering caregivers at the San Francisco General Hospital who tackled the AIDS crisis at the height of the fear and paranoia as the virus took its greatest toll. Interspersing archival footage of…

EXCLUSIVE: A spirited auction has ended with Universal winning the rights to an untitled comedy pitched around town by Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra and Dan Goor. Kaling will write with Goor and she will potentially direct. Its a two-hander star vehicle for Kaling and Priyanka Chopra that takes place in America and…

Crazy Rich Asians outfit Ivanhoe Pictures has joined the producing team behind Priyanka Chopra (Quantico) family drama The Sky Is Pink. The Hindi-language film is written and directed by Shonali Bose and is based on the true life story of the young motivational speaker Aisha Chaudhary and her parents. Alongside…

A profile of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas blasted by readers who called it xenophobic, racist and sophomoric has been taken down by the website The Cut, which is owned by New York magazine. “Upon further editorial review, we found this story did not meet our standards. We've removed it and apologize,” the outlet…

Netflix used the second night of its See What’s Next: Asia content gathering in Singapore to unveil eight new original films for its India market, including a regional release for Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures’ long-gestating Hotel Mumbai, which the streaming giant has rights to in the South and Southeast…

Priyanka Chopra’s action-adventure Cowboy Ninja Viking may have hit a snag for Universal yesterday but it’s all systems go on the Quantico star’s next Bollywood movie. According to her latest social media posts, the Indian mega-star is now in production on The Sky Is Pink, which will co-star Farhan Akhtar and Zaira…