Academy Award-winning producer Guneet Monga Kapoor and Achin Jain of Sikhya Entertainment have signed on as executive producers for “ The Fable ,” directed by Raam Reddy. The film is set to make its Indian debut at the upcoming MAMI Mumbai Film Festival . The film stars Manoj Bajpayee as Dev, alongside Priyanka Bose, Deepak Dobriyal, and Tillotama Shome.
Set in the Indian Himalayas, it follows a family living on an orchard estate whose peaceful life is disrupted by mysterious events. “The Fable,” which premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year and will play at Valladolid’s SEMINCI, has earned positive reviews. Reviewing the film for Variety , Siddhant Adlakha wrote about the film’s “irrepressible power, wielded by Reddy as though he were a cinematic sorcerer melding past and present, until memory, nostalgia and deeply held beliefs cease to be etched in stone.
It is, in effect, a new and necessary way of seeing oneself, one’s childhood, one’s home.” The film is a co-production between India’s Prspctvs Productions and the U.S.
-based Maxmedia. Reddy’s previous work includes “Thithi,” which won two Golden Leopards at the 68th Locarno Film Festival and the National Film Award for best feature film in the Kannada language. Sikhya and Netflix’s “The Elephant Whisperers,” directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, won best documentary short film at the 2023 Oscars.
Monga Kapoor said: “We’re excited to bring ‘The Fable’ to MAMI 2024. It’s so refreshi.