{"id":714391,"date":"2026-06-04T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714391\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:20:20","slug":"norse-key-picks-up-indian-film-bicycle-thief-for-europe-and-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714391\/","title":{"rendered":"Norse Key Picks Up Indian Film ‘Bicycle Thief’ for Europe and U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIndia\u2019s Iroller Media and Entertainment has partnered with Helsinki-based Norse Key<\/a> Productions to handle distribution of \u201cBicycle Thief<\/a>\u201d across Europe and the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tNorse Key founder Maria Kivinen will oversee the distribution push for the film, directed by Darshan Ashwin Trivedi. This marks the first European-U.S. distribution deal for the Ahmedabad-based Iroller.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBicycle Thief\u201d centres on Savji, a Dalit man who leaves the Saurashtra region of Gujarat in 1993, seeking work and dignity in Sanand, Ahmedabad after years under bonded labour. He pays INR200 (then $6.50) for a second-hand bicycle to secure a factory job, only to be arrested when police identify the bike as stolen. He spends two days in custody maintaining his innocence before his life ends in tragedy. A parallel present-day strand follows a filmmaker named Rahul piecing together the truth of what happened to Savji. Director Trivedi spent close to a decade researching the real incident on which the film is based, which he has described as an unresolved case forgotten from Dalit history.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe production is Trivedi\u2019s seventh feature and a tribute to Italian neorealist Vittorio De Sica\u2019s 1948 classic \u201cBicycle Thieves.\u201d The cast includes Hemant Kher \u2013 best known for his role in Sony LIV\u2019s \u201cScam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story\u201d \u2013 alongside Samvedna Suwalka. The film was produced by Milap Sinh Jadeja, Jignesh Patel, and Trivedi, with cinematography by Tapan Vyas and music by the duo Kedar-Bhargav.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNorse Key is thrilled to add to its portfolio the first feature film from India which explores important human values and has a universal appeal,\u201d Kivinen said. \u201c\u2018Bicycle Thief\u2019 is exactly the kind of film that deserves to be seen and felt by audiences everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrivedi\u2019s earlier features include \u201cMrugtrushna (The Other Side of the River),\u201d which won the Gujarat State Award in 2022 and the Golden Butterfly Award for best screenplay at the 33rd International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Iran, and \u201cMara Pappa Superhero,\u201d which took best children\u2019s film at the 20th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Iroller Media and Entertainment has partnered with Helsinki-based Norse Key Productions to handle distribution of \u201cBicycle Thief\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[258811,49,48,75,337,258812],"class_list":["post-714391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bicycle-thief","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-norse-key"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}