Manama: Media figure Sameera Aziz is set to become the first female Saudi filmmaker in Bollywood, the Mumbai-based film production centre.
The journalist has written the scenario of the movie, “Reem”, the story of a Saudi girl looking for her mother, an Indian woman, Saudi news site Sabq reported on Sunday.
Reem’s mother went back to India following her divorce from the Saudi father when their daughter was eight months old.
The father re-married and Reem was brought up with the children of her stepmother.
Upon discovering after some years that her mother was an Indian woman who was living in India, Reem travelled to Mumbai looking for her.
She met an Indian young man who helped with her search for her mother. The two young people fell in love and they got married.
Sameera said that the movie included several “exciting” events as well as humour.
It also sends a message to the international community that Saudis are peace-loving and tolerant people and that the stereotype claiming Saudi men are cruel is not true, Sabq quotes her as saying.
Shooting of the semi-romantic entertaining film will be in the Red Sea resort of Jeddah and in India.
According to her online biography, Sameera, 34 on Monday, was born in Al Khobar, one of the largest cities in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
She is well known for her work with newspapers and for her activism on international, social, expatriate, animal and women's issues.
