Indian digital storytelling platform Pratilipi has cast a strategic content material partnership with manufacturing home Roy Kapur Movies to co-develop and produce a slate of movies and sequence leveraging its expansive story universe.

The partnership will see the businesses collectively determine tales from Pratilipi’s platform, co-invest of their growth, and collaboratively pitch and produce them for main studios and streamers. The aim is to co-produce at the very least six tasks throughout movies and sequence over the following three years.

The primary challenge below the partnership is “Charitraheen,” a courtroom drama that has generated over 21 million reads on the Pratilipi app, with greater than 244,000 opinions and a 4.88/5 ranking.

Pratilipi boasts over 30 million month-to-month energetic customers, 1.6 million writers, and a list of hundreds of thousands of tales throughout 12 Indian languages.

Roy Kapur Movies, based by veteran producer Siddharth Roy Kapur, brings manufacturing experience and business relationships to the alliance. The corporate’s credit embrace “The Sky Is Pink,” which premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, Netflix authentic movie “Yeh Ballet,” Netflix crime thriller sequence “Aranyak,” and SonyLIV sequence “Rocket Boys.” Latest productions embrace “Deva,” “Pippa” and “Tumse Na Ho Payega.”

“Our partnership with Pratilipi is rooted in a shared perception within the energy of storytelling — to entertain, spark thought, and replicate the varied realities of India,” stated Roy Kapur. “Via this collaboration, Roy Kapur Movies faucets right into a wealthy tapestry of voices, languages, and lived experiences that always go unheard. Our aim is to craft tales which can be deeply rooted in native tradition but resonate universally. In immediately’s fast-changing content material panorama, that is our means of connecting grassroots narratives with international audiences.”

Roy Kapur additionally stated that the partnership presents “an unbelievable alternative to unearth and form these voices into tales that entertain and transfer audiences internationally.”

Ranjeet Pratap Singh, co-founder and CEO of Pratilipi, stated the collaboration represents “the following step to unlock the potential of Indian storytelling. Hundreds of thousands of writers on Pratilipi are already shaping the way forward for Indian storytelling, and now, with RKF, we have now the proper companion to deliver these tales to the display screen. We’re not simply adapting content material, we’re making a system the place highly effective concepts can transfer seamlessly from a author’s creativeness to a worldwide viewers. ‘Charitraheen’ is proof that nice tales don’t want to come back from conventional locations anymore to succeed in the worldwide viewers.”

Singh additionally famous that Pratilipi has “all the time believed that highly effective tales can come from wherever — a small city, a bustling metropolis, from creators each seasoned and new.”

Roy Kapur Movies’ upcoming tasks embrace sequence “Matka King” for Prime Video and the internationally mounted historic epic “The Anarchy,” based mostly on William Dalrymple’s bestselling ebook.

Pratilipi additionally owns and operates Pratilipi FM, Pratilipi Comics, Westland Books, and IVM Podcasts. The platform licenses tales to ecosystem companions for adaptation into streaming reveals, TV sequence and movies.