In 2015, Meghna Gulzar’s film Talvar which was about the shocking Aarushi Talwar murder case, made waves across the country. Now reports say Haider director Vishal Bhardwaj is gearing up for a movie based on the Ryan International murder produced by the makers of Talvar. Last year the murder of a seven-year-old at a posh school in Gurugram kept the nation hooked to the news channels. After a long drawn and initially botched investigation, it was found that the kid had been brutally murdered within the school premises and the prime accused was a school senior and not a bus conductor as had been reported.
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The police had initially arrested Ashok Kumar, one of the many bus conductors the school employed, and somehow even got a confession out of him. However, once the case was handed over to CBI, Kumar was set free and a Class XI student was found to be implicated in the murder of the minor.
Much like the Arushi Talvar case, this murder caused a lot of confusion and uproar in the nation.
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Bhardwaj will write the screenplay for the film, reported Bombay Times. The movie will reportedly be titled Talvar 2. Junglee Pictures will develop the Talvar series into a franchise of true-crime movies.
Bhardwaj told Bombay Times:
“Such crimes shake the very moral fabric of society and need to be analysed in a much deeper sense. The world is not just black and white, there’s more to a crime than just victim and perpetrator. That’s why we have decided to continue making true crime procedurals like Talvar.”
