Varun Prabhudayal Gupta's debut film 'Tiraha' was announced at the Dehardun Literature Festival

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and Prasoon Joshi announced Varun Prabhudayal Gupta's debut film 'Tiraha' at Dehardun Literature Festival.

Director Varun Gupta added another feather to his cap with his debut film “Tiraha.” The film’s poster is released by the Honorable Chief Minister, Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami at the Dehradun Literature Festival in the presence of renowned lyricist, Prasoon Joshi and Bollywood film director, Ali Abbas Zafar and actor and journalist, Satish Sharma. Honorable Chief Minister, Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami graced the finale of the Dehradun Literature Festival by his presence being a panelist in the Session 'Rising Uttarakhand'.

The film is based on the Uttrakhand Statehood Movement in 1994 and the sacrifices of the people during the agitation. Where people of the hills of the then Uttar Pradesh were peacefully revolting and agitating for a separate state due to unjust administration. These people were subjected to utmost harassment leading to mass killings and molestation of the women by public representatives. This incident is still dumped under the soil and hardly anyone knows about it to date. The film is in the pre-production stage and the shoot will start shortly.

When it comes to content curation, Varun Gupta always stunned everyone with his choices of content and which we can easily experience in his previous works. His work as a director and curator always goes around the world records and other International platforms. He has previously worked with legends like Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, Mr. Shatrugan Sinha, and Sonakshi Sinha, Lt.Ger. Dr. Kiran Bedi, Ms. Lakshmi Tripathi, and 115 different Artists have given him popularity across the globe. His recent upcoming Directorial Musical film presented by Imtiaz Ali “Jeena Abhi Baki Hai” is also all about women's Empowerment and motivating women to take a stand had not to get subjected to any sort of gender biases. Tiraha is the second directorial film of Varun Gupta after Jeena Abhi Baki Hai. Varun Gupta’s every project has a message that aware people of the betterment of society.

The film is being produced by South Indian Producer and actor Shreyall Shetty who is a leading Mangalore-based business who is also an acclaimed actor in Southern Cinema and has now turned into a producer introducing his own production house ‘ZaShe Multimedia’ along with another producer Samraant Virmani also from Dehradun.

"This film is not just a film for me, its an emotion to show the pain and agony of the people of his own state," says Varun Prabhudayal Gupta.

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