The Indo-Asian News Service reports that filmmaker Shekhar Kapur held audition for his film Paani in Los Angeles in late-October. The article notes, “To be made under the Yash Raj Films banner, the film stars Sushant Singh Rajput… Paani goes on the floors (into production) in mid-2014.”
Digital Spy describes the plot as follows, “Paani is set in a future world ravaged by water shortages. Two young lovers trigger a war that will break the iron grip of the conglomerates and return water to the people.”
In May 2010, Maude Barlow spoke alongside Kapur at a media conference for the film at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
That June, the Ottawa Citizen reported, “Kapur calls it his ‘passion project’ and credits Barlow’s book Blue Covenant for giving him a major piece of inspiration. …Kapur found Barlow after meeting documentary maker Irena Salina and seeing her film Flow.” Kapur said, “I have been wanting to make this movie for a long time. Irena said ‘you have to read Maude’s book’. Blue Covenant was the spark that coalesced the idea.”
In March 2011, Kapur completed the script for the film. In December 2012, it was confirmed that Aditya Chopra at Yash Raj Films would produce the film. IMDb now lists 2015 as the release date for Paani.
The film’s Facebook page can be found here.
