Sonali Cable: A survival drama of the underdog

Sonali Cable, directed by Charudutt Acharya, is the first script from an international film institute screenwriters’ lab to be made into a film.
The script was inducted in the lab in 2012. While Charu wrote the script, many eminent writers from the lab helped him hone it. An alumnus of FTII, he has previously written several popular shows on television.
Inspired by a girl named Sonali who ran an internet café in his neighbourhood, the director modelled the film’s protagonist on her.Essentially an underdog story, the movie traces the life of Sonali Dattaram Tandel who runs a small cyber café with the help of a few ghetto boys. She is forced to take on a corporate giant when it decides to expand its business, thus invading her territory.
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Ali Fazal and Rhea Chakraborty, who play the lead roles, had to adopt a distinct dialect to stay true to their characters. Says Rhea, “I had to work hard on the diction, I hope I have managed to do it well.”
About the protagonist, Charu says, “We have shown Sonali as a typical Maharashtrian girl. We have deliberately shown her character speaking English with that slight accent, so her forty becomes ‘phorrty’. We hope the audience finds it endearing.”
Sonali Cable, produced by Ramesh Sippy Entertainment Private Limited in association with Bombay Mania, releases October 17.
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