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Hollywood director starts work on Kathak legend Sitara Devi

India Blooms News Service | | 29 Nov 2014, 08:11 pm

#Hollywood director starts work on Kathak legend Sitara Devi

Mumbai, Nov 29 (IBNS) Hollywood director David S Wolfe Saturday announced in Sussex, Great Britain that he had commenced work on an international film on the life of the Kathak legend Sitara Devi who passed away on Tuesday.

Wolfe, who is expected to be in India next week for the shooting of his film Love & Passion starring Bollywood actress Anjana B, told a Hollywood website that he was a great fan of the late legend Sitara Devi and has started extensive research on her life and work.

"I will reveal more details about this film when I come to India," was all that Wolfe told IndyaNew.com on telephone. However, actress Anjana is rumored to be part of this film project, as Wolfe has signed her on for two films.

Wolfe was delayed as his visa ran into technical issues "which have been now resolved", a publicist for the UK film production outfit Weeping Shadow Films told IndyaNewz.com.

David S Wolfe was to visit India last weekend for the shooting of his film 'Love & Passion' starring actress Anjanaa Bhattacharya and other Hollywood actors, but his trip was postponed by a week sources said.

Wolfe wanted was a work visa that would permit him and his team of British and American crew including a well-known Los Angeles-based DOP (Director of Photography) to travel and shoot in different parts of India. The film Love & Passion will be shot in various parts of India including Mumbai, Chennai, Pondicherry and Hyderabad.

"As some crew members have British passports and others are American, there were different criteria and procedures to be followed. While 3 members of the 12 member team were granted visas, the director and DOP were denied visas," Edmund Zeigler, CEO of Weeping Shadow Films, had earlier told news portal IndyaNewz.com.

David Wolfe is the producer and owner of Weeping Shadow Films from Sussex, Great Britain and has tied up with a Hollywood studio for international distribution of Love & Passion. The film is expected to be released in May 2014 and will go on floor in Dec this year.

Media reports state that Wolfe has invited actress Maitland Ward for a guest appearance in his film Love & Passion which was scheduled to go on floors around end-November.

The film was earlier delayed after Wolfe and some of his colleagues met with a near-fatal accident near Chennai in August. Wolfe who has done almost 100 short films and documentaries in a career spanning over 30 years in Hollywood is directing his first Bollywood film with a well-known male actor in the main lead. Bollywood actress and dancer Anjanaa Bhattacharya has been signed on as the female lead.

Anjana has acted in films like Zilla Gaziabad, Right Ya Wrong, Chashme Baddoor and others and is a renowned theater artiste and Indian classical dancer. She has trained for over 10 years in Bharat Natayam and Kathak and has given about 250 Indian classical performances till date.

Love & Passion which will be aesthetically shot in locales like Scotland, Thailand and in southern parts of India including Goa and Pondicherry, Wolfe has revealed.

Sitara Devi came from an ordinary but talented Brahmin family of Varanasi which lived in Kolkata and later in Mumbai.

Her father Sukhadev Maharaj was a Sanskrit scholar, researched in Bharat Natyashastra and was a Kathak dancer-teacher, a member of the Royal Court of Nepal, and mother Matsya Kumari was related to Nepal royal family. In the 1920s, Sukhadev Maharaj met Tagore who encouraged him to revive the lost Indian dance form Kathak and elevate it to a dignified status.

Photo Credits: IndyaNewz.com

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