To be made in English and Hindi, the film will be produced by management guru Arindam Chaudhary's Planman Motion Pictures. Through the film, set in pre-independence India, Ghosh is targeting a global audience.
Shabana and Naseer featured for the first time together in Shyam Benegal's "Nishaant" in 1975. They are still remembered for their power-packed performance in Gautam Ghose's national-award winning Hindi film "Paar" in 1985.
Some of their memorable films together are "Sparsh" (1980) "Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai" (1980), "Mandi" (1983), "Masoom" (1983) "Lorie" (1984) and Pestonjee (1988).