Anjali Sivaraman, who scored a resounding critical success in Varsha Bharath’s Bad Girl last year, has been chosen to play the legendary Indo-Hungarian painter Amrita Sher-Gil in Mira Nair’s Amri.The film is inspired by the life and art of Amrita Sher-Gil, the pioneering woman of modern art in India whose bold aesthetic shook up the establishment during her lifetime and has achieved high stature and value in art circles around the world today.Set across Hungary, France and India in the early twentieth century, the film traces the worlds of Europe and India that shaped Sher-Gil’s imagination and her artistic vision. The film wraps production this week after its filming schedule across locations in India and Europe.The ensemble cast features Anjali Sivaraman as Amrita Sher-Gil; alongside Emily Watson as her mother Marie-Antoinette Gottesman; Jaideep Ahlawat as her father Umrao Singh Sher-Gil; Krisztián Csákvári as Victor Egan; Anjana Vasan as Indira Sher-Gil; Jim Sarbh as Karl Khandalavala and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas as Madame Azurie. Priyanka Chopra-Jonas also serves as an executive producer on the film.For Mira Nair, Amri is also a deeply personal film. Sher-Gil’s work has been impactful on the filmmaker’s visual imagination, and the film reflects a connection that is both artistic and profoundly felt.Talking about Amri, Mira Nair shared, “Every film I’ve made in the last several decades has been inspired by the art of Amrita Sher-Gil. She taught me how to see. She absorbed the best European training to distil the soul of India in a way that no one ever had — it is this distillation that has informed my own cinema from the beginning. The bravery of her palette, colour and framing of the ordinary people of India has eternally moved me.”