{"id":25988,"date":"2020-02-25T17:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=25988"},"modified":"2020-02-25T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:54:51","slug":"john-abraham-to-produce-biopic-on-revathi-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=25988","title":{"rendered":"John Abraham to produce biopic on Revathi Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 12.0pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">John Abraham on Tuesday announced his next production, a biographical drama film based on the life of well-known social entrepreneur Revathi Roy.<\/span>The actor-producer will back the project through his banner JA Entertainment, alongside Robbie Grewal&#8217;s Red Ice Films and Anil Bohra&#8217;s Vyka Entertainment.Robbie, who previously worked with John on 2019&#8217;s spy thriller RAW , will helm the movie which will chronicle the story of Roy, who started India&#8217;s only last-mile delivery company that employs only women as delivery agents.&#8221;I am very happy that we are producing this very upbeat story that combines the best of entrepreneurial twists with an extremely dramatic personal life. Revathi&#8217;s journey is that of a vivacious, funny, full of life, spirited woman, who despite all odds has risen like a phoenix and has been continuously working towards empowering underprivileged women,&#8221; John said in a statement.Robbie said it is an honour to be able to tell the story of such an heroic and courageous woman.&#8221;Revathi&#8217;s life is full of crests and troughs and dramatic twists and turns. We usually see stories about how people rise from rags to riches; Revathi went from riches to rags to a revolution,&#8221; Robbie said.<span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">The story of the film has been adapted from the book Who is Revathi Roy&#8217; by Swati Lodha.<\/span>Revathi said she is very happy that John, Robbie and Anil have come together to tell a story, which she believes is not just her own but of every woman, who was given a chance.<\/span>&#8220;Women are born fighters and an opportunity given to them never goes waste. All we need to provide is an ecosystem for them to flourish. In a small way, that is what my team and I have done,&#8221; Revathi, who featured in the list of Fortune India&#8217;s most powerful women in 2019, said.<\/span>Produced by JA Entertainment, Red Ice Films &amp; Vyka Entertainment, the film is currently in pre-production stage.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Abraham on Tuesday announced his next production, a biographical drama film based on the life of well-known social entrepreneur Revathi Roy.The actor-producer will back the project through his banner JA Entertainment, alongside Robbie Grewal&#8217;s Red Ice Films and Anil Bohra&#8217;s Vyka Entertainment.Robbie, who previously worked with John on 2019&#8217;s spy thriller RAW , will helm the movie which will chronicle the story of Roy, who started India&#8217;s only last-mile delivery company that employs only women as delivery agents.&#8221;I am very happy that we are producing this very upbeat story&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25995,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988\/revisions\/25995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}