Talks are abuzz that Raveena Tandon has been singed to play the leading role in an American film on the plight of Hindu widows in Vrindavan.
Titled ‘White Rainbow’, the film will be jointly produced by Linda and Dharan Mandrayar, and Hannah Kirby of San Diego, California. The Mandrayars own Dharlin Entertainment, which is an independent film production company making movies in collaboration with two India-based companies.
As it happened, the Mandrayars came to know about the plight of widows in Vrindavan through their son. After that Dharan specially flew to India to see the reality of it in the northern Indian pilgrim town. And what he saw moved him deeply and prompted him to make a film on the life of anguish and penury the widows live.
To play the main character of an educated and affluent widow Priya in ‘White Rainbow’, the producers are reported to have approached Raveena and there are talks that the actress has consented to do the movie.
In the film Raveena will play a widow who flees to Vrindavan to escape her in-laws. There, she befriends three women and teaches them to read and write, helps them to get their government pensions, which are often stolen from widows. The film will tell the four women's stories and what they do to help the other widows of Vrindavan.
‘White Rainbow’ will be shot in India in December and January.
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