An Indian Brontë project

We have read the following in the Indian press:

Rabindranath Tagore has been the inspiration for many a creative idea, be it movies, paintings or documentaries. British Council, recently screened Letter From An Ordinary Girl, a 26-minute film by UK based filmmaker, Sangeeta Datta based on the bard’s poem Sadharan Meye. (...)

Datta, who taught film making at St Xavier’s college in Mumbai before shifting to London, (...) her films have a strong gender bias, towards woman naturally. Sadharan Meye, is the first of the trilogy that she has planned. The other two will be based on Brontë’s story and on Javed Akhtar’s story. Besides these she has also worked on two documentaries based on the Bengali diaspora in England and another on Indian women filmmakers. (...)

After the trilogy, it could be the turn of a period drama, though she adds there’s nothing concrete planned yet.

Hmmm... period drama? if Ang Lee (originally from Taiwan) was able to direct an Austen adaptation (Sense & Sensibility), why can't an Indian director film a Brontë one?

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