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Siddharth Roy Kapur’s production house, Roy Kapur Films, has acquired the audio-visual rights to author and historian William Dalrymple’s bestselling book on colonialism, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.
It provides an account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent.
Siddharth is planning to get together an international team of writers and showrunners for a big-budget, grand-scale series adaptation of the book. In a statement Kapur said,
Even Dalrymple shared that he is thrilled to collaborate with Siddharth. “I don’t think I have ever written a book more obviously crying out to be adapted than The Anarchy and I can’t think of anyone in India better to adapt it than Siddharth Roy Kapur. I’m very excited looking at the initial treatment note, talking about the various ways to bring this book alive and to bring the characters I’ve been living with over the last 6 years onto the screen, so that everyone else can see them in flesh and blood. It’s an incredibly exciting moment”, the author said.
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