Aditi Rao Hydari & Paige Sandhu Feature ‘Lioness’ Set As First Official UK-India Co-Production
deadline.comHistorical feature film Lioness, starring Aditi Rao Hydari (Jubilee) and Paige Sandhu (Emmerdale), has been set as the first official India-UK co-production under a treaty signed in 2008.
Directed by Kajri Babbar, the film tells the story of two British Punjabi women living in the UK a century apart. One story is based on a historical figure, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, the Princess of Punjab and Goddaughter of Queen Victoria, who was one of the key leaders of the suffragette movement in the UK.
The second fictional storyline revolves around an educated, married immigrant woman, Mehak, living in Southall, a suburb of London, in the 1990s.
Princess Sophia will be played by Indian origin UK actress Paige Sandhu, who is best known for her role in UK soap opera Emmerdale.
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