Producer of Cannes Prizewinner ‘The Shameless’ Boards Female Freedom Fighter Doc ‘Legend of Abbakka’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Mohaan Nadaar’s The Production Headquarters Limited, one of the producers of Cannes-prizewinning film “The Shameless,” has boarded Indian documentary “Legend of Abbakka.” “The Shameless” was directed by Bulgarian-American filmmaker Konstantin Bojanov and appeared in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival this year.
There, Anasuya Sengupta won the best actress award. Rani Abbakka of Ullal, southern India, a 16th-century warrior-queen, defied the Portuguese Empire, a feat often overlooked in history books.
Documentary, “Legend of Abbakka” aims to bring her story to light, using the Yakshagana and Bhuta Kola folk-theater traditions of coastal Karnataka, where Abbakka’s valor is legendary.
Ruling over a diverse population, Abbakka united her subjects against foreign invaders and is known for divorcing her treacherous husband.
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