Infernal Affairs, a 2002 cult movie from Hong Kong that inspired Martin Scorcese’s The Departed, is set to be remade in India.
Mumbai-based Azure Entertainment Pvt Ltd and Warner Bros India on Monday announced a strategic collaboration to jointly invest in and produce the film.
The companies are at an advanced stage of formalising the director for the crime thriller.
This project is the first of a two-picture deal between the two companies to develop, produce and distribute key titles from the Warner Bros library for the Indian film market.
“It is a matter of pride for a young company like ours to collaborate with Warner Bros to jointly develop and produce the local language adaptation of this amazing movie. We are thrilled to be working with the Warner Bros India team and cannot wait to get started,” said Sunir Kheterpal, CEO, Azure Entertainment.
Denzil Dias, managing director, Warner Bros India, said: “This is an exciting time for us to be partnering in local language production with the team at Azure, who are passionate about film and storytelling, and ideally placed to adapt and develop foreign language source material into Indian language remakes.
“We could not have chosen a better title than Infernal Affairs to announce this collaboration. We look forward to bringing great new Indian language films to local and global audiences.”
