AIR greenlights Gupta's 'Jadoo'

LONDON -- The producers of Amit Gupta's debut film "Resistance" have greenlit the director's second feature, "Jadoo," that will start shooting in March."Jadoo" is really a curry house comedy inspired by Gupta's own upbringing above his family's restaurant in Leicester, England.It is the story of two siblings, both great chefs, who drop out badly they rip the household recipe book in two, one using the starters and also the other the primary courses, and hang up rival restaurants over the road from one another.Two decades later, it requires a daughter to reunite them when she's going to persuade these to prepare her wedding banquet together.AIR Prods., the brand new company setup by "Resistance" producers Amanda Faber, Isabelle Georgeaux and Richard Holmes, has elevated the whole $3 million budget from private traders, following a funding model they developed with "Resistance."They're co-creating "Jadoo" with Nikki Parrot of Tigerlily Films, who initially optioned Gupta's radio play and developed it with support from EM Media, the previous regional screen agency for that East Midlands in which the story is placed.Throwing is presently going ahead."Jadoo" signifies reasonable departure in tone and elegance from "Resistance," a sober period drama occur a remote Welsh valley in the mid 1940s, following a hypothetical German invasion of Britain."Resistance," starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen, was launched within the U.K. in November by Metrodome, grossing a modest $104,000 but generating some warm reviews. It will likely be released to foreign purchasers at Berlin by Paris-based sales outfit Rezo. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com