![]() MUMBAI: Siddharth Roy Kapur's production banner Roy Kapur Films and American studio Wiip on Thursday announced the series adaptation of author William Dalrymple's novel "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company". ![]() The series will be executive produced by Wiip's Paul Lee, Kapur, and XPat Productions' Naz Haider. We look forward to creating a globally relevant series together that will appeal to audiences across geographies, languages and cultures," Kapur said. Jeremy's expertise in crafting intricate character-driven narratives that are deeply rooted in history and setting them against a huge canvas, makes him the perfect collaborator for this project. ![]() "We are delighted to announce that we have brought on board the acclaimed BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Jeremy Brock, to adapt William Dalrymple's global bestseller 'The Anarchy' into a premium series. Published in 2019, the book was one of The Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year. ![]() The book tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company - a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide. It will be produced across the US, UK and India, a press release stated. "The Anarchy" will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films. ![]()
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