India’s first Hollywood actor Sabu’s extraordinary life story is coming in life on the big screen. Film and television rights “Sabu: The notable story of the first actor of India in Hollywood”, the acclaimed biography of writer Debalina Majumdar is acquired by the Almighty Motion Picture.
The biography describes the incredible true story of Sabhu Dasthagir, the Indian boy who arises from the elephant stables in Mysore to become an international film star.
“The story of Sabu is to be told with grandeur and truth. It was not just India’s first global star – that was a bridge between the world, cultures and ages. More than the film building to bring its story on screen – it is to preserve a legacy that the world should never forget and have a responsibility that we are close to our hearts.
The son of ancomatic (elephant handler) studies Satu’s colonial India from the colonial India to the Hollywood Walk of Fame traveling as a forgotten epic of fame, war, identity and heritage. His story spreads continents, cultures and ages – his breakout role in “Elephant Boy” in his service as a decorated air gunner in World War II
Sabu, which was born in 1924 in Karpura in Mysore, Mysore, Mysore, which was then made by a royal kingdom of British India in the 1973 film “Elephant Boy” from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” in “Elephant Boy” based on “Tomai of Elephants”.
The film directed the documentary filmmaker Robert J. Fleharti did, who produced Indian footage, and monitored director Zolton Corda, who completed the film and won the Best Director Award at Venice Film Festival. At London Films Studios was shot in Denham and in place in Mysore, the film launched Sabu in international stardom.
Hollywood classics included “The The Thef of Baghdad” (1940), “Jungle Book” (1942), “Arab Nights” (1942) and “Black Narcissus” (1947), which became a box office sensation and cultural bridge between East and West.
His contribution to cinema was recognized in 1960 with his induction in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sabu died of a sudden heart attack in 1963 at the age of 39.
Majumdar said: “Thank you very much to my literary agent Mr. Suhail Mathur, to believe in me and not only to receive a book deal and an AV one, but also to find the value in the story and also share the amazing thoughts and omnipotent speed pictures to shape it with this magnificent vision.”
“This was an honor for researching this book and more importantly how the world developed cinema and movies through changing global events.”
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