Overview
- Almighty Motion Picture has acquired film and television rights to Debleena Majumdar’s biography “Sabu: The Remarkable Story of India’s First Actor in Hollywood.”
- The project is being developed as either a big-budget cinematic feature or a premium web series under Sandhu’s creative vision.
- Majumdar’s book traces Sabu Dastagir’s rise from elephant stables in Mysore to his breakout role in the 1937 film Elephant Boy and subsequent Hollywood classics.
- The adaptation will highlight his service as a decorated air gunner during World War II and his 1960 induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- The planned production aims to preserve Sabu’s legacy as a pioneering cultural bridge between colonial India and Hollywood’s golden age.