{"id":829605,"date":"2026-08-29T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829605\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:56:09","slug":"anup-singh-sets-mumbai-film-lasya-the-gentle-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829605\/","title":{"rendered":"Anup Singh Sets Mumbai Film ‘Lasya: The Gentle Dance’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnup Singh<\/a>, director of \u201cQissa\u201d and \u201cThe Song of Scorpions,\u201d is directing a new short film, \u201cLasya: The Gentle Dance,\u201d shot on Mumbai\u2019s streets, produced by Mumbai-based Pretty Pictures.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Gentle Dance\u201d follows a father and son, beggars on Mumbai\u2019s roadside, over the course of a day in their lives. Monsoon rains repeatedly destroy their shelter, and the city offers them little beyond hostility and indifference. It is the father\u2019s stories about the boy\u2019s late mother \u2013 her boldness and her refusal to let go of playfulness even as she navigated the city and the natural world \u2013 that allow the son to see himself as more than a victim, and give him the will to dance among the ruins as she did and rebuild his life.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis will be a short film,\u201d Singh said. \u201cIt is for me an attempt, call it a desperate attempt, to see if in this time of AI, quick and violent action, and celebration of various demogogueries in storytelling, whether there is still a way to reaffirm cinema\u2019s gentle ways of reaching us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is produced by Pretty Pictures, the Mumbai-based banner helmed by Zeeshan Ahmad and Pretty Aggarwal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnup Singh\u2019s work has always been about people on the margins,\u201d Ahmad said. \u201cHis cinema has consistently insisted that their life not be documented only for the pain, but that the joys and the beauty of their life also be affirmed. We would like to support that vision in our work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the short, Pretty Pictures plans to begin work with Singh early next year on his next feature film, which would mark the third film he was set to make with Irrfan Khan<\/a>. The project returns some six years after the actor\u2019s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter this short, we are ready to start working with Anup Singh on his next feature film early next year,\u201d Ahmad said. \u201cAnup Singh is finally ready to return to the film. We are very excited to make this film in homage to Irrfan Khan<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anup Singh, director of \u201cQissa\u201d and \u201cThe Song of Scorpions,\u201d is directing a new short film, \u201cLasya: The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[351394,88,181914,206],"class_list":["post-829605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anup-singh","tag-entertainment","tag-irrfan-khan","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}