Reliance Entertainment | Ribhu Dasgupta: Reliance Entertainment partners with director Ribhu Dasgupta for joint venture to produce films

Mumbai: Reliance Entertainment on Wednesday introduced that the corporate has joined arms with filmmaker Ribhu Dasgupta, identified for the Netflix sequence “Bard of Blood”, to type Film Hangar, a joint venture to produce motion pictures. Dasgupta has earlier helmed megastar Amitabh Bachchan-starrer TV sequence “Yudh” and “TE3N”, additionally that includes Bachchan, Vidya Balan, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

The first movie beneath Film Hangar is Dasgupta’s upcoming directorial, “The Girl on the Train”.

An adaptation of the 2015 best-selling novel of the identical title by Paula Hawkins, the thriller stars Parineeti Chopra, Aditi Rao Hydari, Kirti Kulhari and Avinash Tiwari.

Dasgupta stated the intent of this joint venture is to make films which might be wealthy in content material and excessive on leisure.

“We purpose to blur the traces between ‘massy’ and ‘elegant’ content material as a result of filmmaking is an artwork that defies boundaries, definitions and labels,” the director stated in a press release.

Shibasish Sarkar, Group CEO, Reliance Entertainment, credited Dasgupta for having a “distinctive sensibility” as a filmmaker.

With Film Hangar, Sarkar stated, the staff needs to break the “litter” with partaking content material.

“At Reliance Entertainment, we consider that filmmakers who hold us on the sting of the seat needs to be within the driving seat when it comes to content material and our new joint venture is a testomony of this perception,” the senior government stated in a press release.

“The Girl on The Train” is slated to be launched on Netflix on February 26.