Anil Kapoor’s cross-cultural romance with Ritesh Batra faces delay

In September, mid-day reported that Ritesh Batra of The Lunchbox fame was readying to take his cross-cultural romance on flooring with Anil Kapoor and the ‘Earlier than’ trilogy star Julie Delpy (In India, after dawn, Sep 12). However there’s a twist within the story. Sources inform us that the talks between Kapoor and Batra have fallen by means of, inflicting the filmmaker to hit pause on the undertaking. 

A supply instructed mid-day, “Anil and Ritesh have been enthusiastic about their maiden collaboration. Nonetheless, scheduling has performed a spoilsport. Ritesh hoped to roll the movie by September-end, however Anil and his dates couldn’t be aligned. Ritesh would somewhat wait than compromise on any of the story’s features.”  

Now, Batra has determined to give attention to the Netflix sequence, ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s acclaimed anthology of the identical identify. The filmmaker, who will even function an govt producer, will helm two episodes of the Freida Pinto-starrer. “A young romance a couple of homemaker who meets her long-lost love, the story is correct up Ritesh’s alley. The sequence has gone on flooring and he’s absolutely invested in doing justice to Lahiri’s story,” says an insider.

mid-day reached out to Kapoor’s crew, who didn’t reply until press time.

The Netflix sequence additionally stars Siddharth, with Sarayu Blue, Indraneil Sengupta, and Adi Roy forming the supporting forged