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Almighty Motion Picture Secures Rights for Biopic of India’s First Hollywood Star

Producer Prabhleen Sandhu will oversee a high-budget feature film or premium series that brings Sabu’s cross-cultural journey from Mysore to Hollywood to life.

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.