Producer Siddharth Roy Kapur recently announced his next film inspired by the lives of Mumbai artists titled Ballet Boys. Roy Kapur Films (RKF) has teamed up with filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala of The Namesake (2007) to write and direct the project.
Ballet Boys is a musical-drama revolving around the story of two Mumbai dancers Amiruddin Shah and Manish Chauhan, and their Israeli-American mentor Yehuda Maor who triumphed against all odds get them into the London’s Royal Ballet Academy and the Oregon Ballet Theatre.
Speaking of the second-time collaboration with Kapur, Taraporevala said “I have always admired Sid’s filmography and his drive to tell stories that matter. I hope this collaboration will successfully bring to light the incredible and emotionally driven journey of the boys and their teacher, along with the fact that talent has no boundaries. There is so much talent in India that lies undiscovered and had it not been for Yehuda, this one too might have remained undiscovered.”
Along the same lines will be director Zoya Akhtar’s next film Gully Boy starring Ranveer Singh in the titular role; it is based on the lives of Mumbai rap artists Vivian Fernandes aka Divine and Naved Shaikh aka Naezy.
Ballet Boys is is pre-production stage and is expected to go on floors by January 2019.
