SRINAGAR: The Collaborator, best selling debut novel by London based Kashmiri writer Mirza Waheed, has been acquired for film by New York based independent film company Mulberry Films.
The Collaborator is based on Waheeds acclaimed novel, writes Mulberry Films introduction to their new venture – “It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear as if from nowhere to hunt for militants on the run. Four teenage boys, who used to spend their afternoons playing cricket, or singing ballads down by the river, have disappeared one by one, to cross into Pakistan and join the movement against the Indian army.
Only one of their friends, the son of the headman, is left behind. The families in the village begin to think it’s time to flee, to search for a place of greater safety. But the headman will not allow his family to leave. And, whilst the headman watches his dreams give way beneath the give way beneath the growing violence, his son, under the brutal, drunken gaze of the Indian army captain, is seemingly forced to collaborate and go into the valley to count the corpses, fearing, each day, that he will discover one of his friends lying amongst the dead”.
“The Colloborator” is a stunningly humane work of storytelling with a poignant and unpredictable hero at its heart. In one of the most shocking and brilliantly compelling novels of recent times Mirza Waheed lights our way into the heart of a war that is all too real.
Mulberry Films, founded in Sep 2012, is headquartered in New York and Mumbai.
We are a Development and Production company for creatively-challenging and commercially viable independent film and media projects, reads company profile on its website.
Disclosing the news, Waheed said, I am pleased about the possibility of the novel being adapted for screen… Information about writer, director, actors will follow on confirmation.
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