‘Karachi You’re Killing Me’ set to make a mark in Bollywood

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Bestseller ‘Karachi You’re Killing Me’ is all set to make a mark in Bollywood; a novel written by Pakistani journalist Saba Imtiaz is soon to become a Hindi film.

Makers of the upcoming Bollywood movie, Airlift, have bought film rights from the young journalist and plan on putting the project to work by the end of the year. The novel, which centers on Ayesha Khan, a journalist, and chronicles her life in Karachi, is a Bridget Jones’s Diarymeets the Diary of a Social Butterfly, “a comedy of manners in a city with none,” as Saba describes it.

The author, Saba will be working closely with the production team to help develop the film.

However, the makers are planning to revise the novel to fit an Indian context. “It’s tentatively called Delhi, You’re Killing Me and will be entirely set in the Old Delhi environment. The hunt for a young female actress to play Ayesha is currently on,” said a source close to the development.

 

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