By Dipti Nagpaul for The India Express, 11 August 2015
Two months ago, actor Rajat Kapoor was looking for producers for three of his finished scripts. Among those he met with was Cinestaan Film Company, whose team went through all the scripts and highlighted one — titled Mathura, it is about a theatre troupe in the town that is attempting to perform William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Impressed with the plot, they advised Kapoor to submit the script for Microwave International: Shakespeare India, a project by Film London (an agency that supports growth and development of film and media in London) to commemorate the Bard’s 400th death centenary.
Kapoor’s is one of the six shortlisted scripts for the project. One will finally be greenlit and released in 2016 as part of Shakespeare400, a year-long cultural programme. London-based film financiers Bob & Co and Cinestaan are on board with an investment budget of £500,000 for the selected film. “When Cinestaan suggested I send Film London my script, I was not even sure if it fulfills the criterion of being an adaptation of Shakespeare’s work,” says Kapoor.
With the other finalists, he underwent a mentoring session in London in July as part of a lab at Microschool, a programme that is working exclusively with Indian talent (based in India or the UK) and teamed producers with writers-directors to create teams. Next month, the six teams will send their revised drafts to Film London.
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