Image Source : INSTAGRAM/FREIDAPINTO Frieda Pinto to play World War II British Indian spy Noor Inayat Khan in new sequence
Hollywood star Frieda Pinto will tackle the position of British World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan in an upcoming tv thriller. The six-part sequence, which is able to get into manufacturing later this yr, hails from author Olivia Hetreed and Red Room Films. It is predicated on the biography “Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan” (2006) by creator Shrabani Basu and shall be directed by London-based filmmaker Anand Tucker.
The screenplay, which is able to chronicle the unimaginable story of the younger Sufi mystic-turned-war-heroine, has been devised as a spy thriller.
Khan, whose Indian heritage is traced again to the 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, was born in Moscow in 1914 to Indian father Hazrat Inayat Khan and American mom Ora Ray Baker.
She was despatched to Nazi-occupied France in 1943 as an undercover radio operator for Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE). But Khan was betrayed, arrested and killed in Dachau Concentration Camp on the age of 30.
“She was a fierce and amazing woman – the most unlikely heroine of World War II,” Pinto, who can also be an government producer on the undertaking, stated.
“Sending women to the front line is controversial even now. Then it was unthinkable. Sending a Sufi mystic, who won’t use a gun, daughter of a long-haired Indian Guru who preaches love and peace – ridiculous! But Noor thrives, not in spite of her differences, but because of them,” she added.
Basu, additionally the founding-chair of the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust, stated she was pleased that Khan’s inspiring story shall be reaching an excellent greater viewers with the sequence.
“The beauty of a television series is that you can get into the story in depth. Noor lived for a brief 30 years, but her life and the choices she made, work at so many levels. I think it is just the sort of inspiring story that we need as we slowly come out of this pandemic and look for hope in the future,” stated the creator.
Red Room Films’ founder Claire Ingham pursued the story for display screen after discovering {a photograph} of Noor in uniform. But it wasn’t till Basu’s guide launched that she was capable of get extra in-depth particulars and an intimate portrait of the courageous spy.
“She had such charisma and presence – ‘Twice seen, never forgotten’ – and but she was shy and delicate.
“Her SOE trainers thought she was too dreamy and naïve to send to war, but she learned wireless operations at a faster rate than her male colleagues; and when she was sent undercover, lived by her wits – making a difference because she was different, with a different set of code references and life experiences to draw upon,” stated Ingham.
He will function an government producer alongside Hetreed and her Sympathetic Ink accomplice Andy Paterson.
“At a time when conflicts about race, identity and patriotism have a new and frightening energy, Noor’s character and her nail-biting story of hair’s-breadth escapes and life and death choices, offer us the picture of a heroine who defies every prejudice and stereotype,” stated Hetreed.
The capturing schedule of the present will transfer between the UK, Europe and India.
The life story of Khan was most not too long ago depicted in filmmaker Sarah Megan Thomas” “A Call to Spy”. Actor Radhika Apte portrayed Khan within the film, which was launched on Amazon Prime Video in December final yr.
