Filmmaker Mira Nair releases the first look of her next film, AmriEspecially with variety. The film is inspired by the life and art of Amrita Sher-Gil, a pioneer of modern art in India, whose bold aesthetic shook the establishment during her lifetime and enjoys high stature and value in art circles around the world today. Set in Hungary, France and India in the early twentieth century, the film explores the worlds of Europe and India that shaped Sher-Gil’s imagination and his artistic vision. The film is currently being produced in India and Hungary.
Mira Nair releases first look of Amari: Priyanka Chopra, Jaideep Ahlawat and Jim Sarbh join the project, inside scoop!
The cast includes Anjali Sivaraman as Amrita Sher-Gil, Emily Watson as her mother, Marie-Antoinette Gottesman, Jaideep Ahlawat as her father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Christian Sesquiari as Victor Egan, Anjana Wasson as Indira Sher-Gil, Jim Sarbh as Karl Khandalawala and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas as Madame Azuri. Are.
Priyanka Chopra-Jonas also serves as an executive producer on the film.
For Mira Nair, Amri This is also a very personal film. Shergill’s work has been influential on the filmmaker’s visual imagination, and the film reflects a relationship that is artistic and deeply felt.
talking about AmriMira Nair shared, “Every film I have made over the last several decades has been inspired by the art of Amrita Sher-Gil. She taught me to see. She absorbed the best of European training to evoke the soul of India in a way no one had ever done before – it is this distillation that has informed my own cinema from the beginning. The bravery of her palette, colors and framing of India’s common people has always impressed me.”
Amri Explores her coming of age as both an artist and a woman, her restless pursuit of selfhood, her disregard for convention to the point of scandal in her love life, and her determination to create a visual language entirely her own. The youngest student admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris, educated and trained in the conventions of the European tradition, Amrita developed a personal aesthetic that highlighted the everyday lives of ordinary women and men in India. It was a revolutionary aesthetic breakthrough that later shaped Meera’s own sensibility. Rich in the cultural, emotional and social currents of its time, the film brings to the screen a life lived across geographies, identities and ways of seeing in a contemporary tone. This project is about how an exceptionally creative individual sees India and its people on his own terms, and not from a European or traditional perspective. Thus, it is about seeing and being seen, and this is its universal relevance.
talking about AmriProducer Samudrika Arora shared, “Amrita Shergill’s life and works reflect the aspirations of the modern generation, where identity and unapologetic self-expression meet. There is something deeply human in the tension of coming from two vastly different worlds – the challenge of belonging to both, and never completely being either. What inspired me to make this film is how Amri Embracing the best of each world, and not losing yourself in the space between them. It is a privilege to bring this story to life with Meera, whose art of telling cross-cultural stories is unmatched.”
Producer Michael Nozick said, “Although the film is set between the two world wars, Amrita is a character timeless and ahead of her time – she is a true visionary artist and social revolutionary, her life story a beacon of inspiration. Along with Meera’s direction, Anjali’s performance as Amrita captures the spirit of youthful curiosity and rebellion.”
Major exhibitions of Amrita Shergill’s work are planned around the world in 2027, starting in Paris, moving to Los Angeles, Doha and finally New Delhi, where a permanent exhibition is planned.
Amri It is directed by Mira Nair, who also co-wrote the film with Clara Royer. The film is produced by Samudrika Arora, Michael Nozick and Mira Nair.
Mirabai, Samscape, Papertown Production in association with KNMA and Miramax.
