Earlier than Bollywood grew to become a world phenomenon, there was Sabu — India’s pioneering face in Hollywood whose extraordinary life story is heading again to the large display screen.

Almighty Movement Image has acquired the movie and tv rights to “Sabu: The Outstanding Story of India’s First Actor in Hollywood,” the acclaimed biography by creator Debleena Majumdar that chronicles the unbelievable true story of Sabu Dastagir, the Indian boy who rose from elephant stables in Mysore to develop into a world film star.

The son of a mahout (elephant handler), Sabu’s journey from colonial India to the Hollywood Stroll of Fame reads like a forgotten epic of fame, warfare, id, and legacy. His story spans continents, cultures, and eras — from his breakout function in “Elephant Boy” to his service as a embellished air gunner in World Battle II.

Sabu made his debut in “Elephant Boy” (1937) primarily based on Rudyard Kipling’s “Toomai of the Elephants” from “The Jungle Guide.” The movie was directed by documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty, who produced the Indian footage, and supervising director Zoltan Korda, who accomplished the movie and received the very best director award on the Venice Movie Pageant. Shot at London Movies studios at Denham and on location in Mysore, the movie launched Sabu into worldwide stardom.

He went on to star in Hollywood classics together with “The Thief of Bagdad” (1940), “Jungle Guide” (1942), “Arabian Nights” (1942) and “Black Narcissus” (1947), turning into a field workplace sensation and cultural bridge between East and West. His contributions to cinema had been acknowledged together with his induction into the Hollywood Stroll of Fame in 1960.

“Sabu’s story deserves to be instructed with grandeur and fact,” stated Prabhleen Sandhu, producer at Almighty Movement Image, whose credit embody “Mastram” and “Starfish.” “He wasn’t simply India’s first international star—he was a bridge between worlds, cultures, and eras. To convey his story to the display screen is greater than filmmaking – it’s preserving a legacy the world should always remember and is a accountability we maintain near our hearts.”

The undertaking is being developed as a high-budget cinematic characteristic movie and/or premium net collection, celebrating Sabu’s iconic journey via colonial India, wartime Europe, and golden-era Hollywood.

Creator Debleena Majumdar stated: “Thanks rather a lot to my literary agent Suhail Mathur for believing in me and for not solely getting me a guide deal and an AV one however for additionally sharing the superb thought, and Almighty Movement Image for locating worth within the story and for shaping it with this good imaginative and prescient. It was an honor to analysis on this guide and extra importantly to find out about how cinema and films developed via world altering international occasions.”