Ace filmmaker Mira Nair is coming up with a new film, Amri, which is inspired by the life and art of Amrita Sher-Gil, a pioneer in India's modern art world. Notably, the ensemble cast is led by Anjali Sivaraman as celebrated artist Amrita Sher-Gil, alongside Emily Watson as her mother, Marie-Antoinette Gottesman, and Jaideep Ahlawat as her father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil. The film also stars Krisztian Csakvari as Victor Egan, Anjana Vasan as Indira Sher-Gil, Jim Sarbh as Karl Khandalavala, and Priyanka Chopra as Madame Azurie. Priyanka Chopra also serves as an executive producer on the film.

 

Recently, the film's first look was unveiled on social media. For Mira Nair, Amri is also a deeply personal film. Sher-Gil's work has been impactful on the filmmaker's visual imagination, and the film reflects a connection that is both artistic and profoundly felt. Talking about Amri, Mira Nair, in a press note, shared, "Every film I've made in the last several decades has been inspired by the art of Amrita Sher-Gil. She absorbed the best European training to distill the soul of India in a way that no one ever had--it is this distillation that has informed my own cinema from the beginning. The bravery of her palette, color and framing of the ordinary people of India has eternally moved me."