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Matchbox Shots, the Mumbai-based banner behind \u201cAndhadhun,\u201d \u201cMonica O My Darling\u201d (Netflix) and \u201cScoop\u201d (Netflix), is backing \u201cShamed,\u201d an official adaptation of Sarbjit Kaur Athwal\u2019s memoir of the same name.<\/p>\n
The book tells the real-life story of a British-Punjabi woman who, after witnessing her family conspire to kill her sister-in-law, mustered the courage to testify against them in open court. Her testimony led to the U.K.\u2019s first bodiless murder conviction.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n For producer Sarita Patil of Matchbox Shots, the project\u2019s urgency was immediate. \u201cWhat drew me to this story was the way it exposes the insidious violence that can live beneath the surface of \u2018happy families\u2019. But it also offers an extraordinary template of resistance. It\u2019s not only a story of betrayal, but of courage, of a woman who rises against impossible odds,\u201d says Patil, who sees \u201cShamed\u201d as both cinema and advocacy, a film that can catalyse long-overdue conversations around domestic violence within South Asian communities globally.<\/p>\n Director-writer Dikssha Routray will be at the helm of the feature film adaptation which is part of the WAVES Film Bazaar Co-Production Market. Routray has worked as a creative producer on Hindi-language films \u201cAndhadhun\u201d (2018) and \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d (2024) and has led numerous other films and series for Matchbox Shots over the years besides directing the short films \u201cThe Ideal Bride\u201d and \u201cRed Velvet.\u201d<\/p>\n Matchbox Shots is actively seeking international co-producers through WAVES Film Bazaar. Some 25% of the budget is already secured. \u201cFor \u201cShamed,\u201d we are strategically leveraging co-production markets, private equity, and domestic and international rebates to build a strong financial structure going forward,\u201d says Patil.<\/p>\n The market is the first official outing of \u201cShamed,\u201d which is in the final stages of script refinement, with production targeted for 2027. \u201cIn addition to our established work, we are deeply committed to nurturing and supporting emerging talent. At Matchbox, we provide a platform for new voices to break through, offering them the opportunity to shine and contribute to the future of storytelling,\u201d Patil adds.<\/p>\n WAVES Film Bazaar is the market component of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matchbox Shots, the Mumbai-based banner behind \u201cAndhadhun,\u201d \u201cMonica O My Darling\u201d (Netflix) and \u201cScoop\u201d (Netflix), is backing \u201cShamed,\u201d an official adaptation of Sarbjit Kaur Athwal\u2019s memoir of the same name. The book tells the real-life story of a British-Punjabi woman who, after witnessing her family conspire to kill her sister-in-law, mustered the courage to testify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2171941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[346336,417446,23191,417445],"class_list":["post-2171940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-film-adaptation","tag-matchbox-shots","tag-netflix","tag-sarita-patil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Andhadhun-Producer-Matchbox-Backs-Film-Adaptation-of-Honor-Killing-True.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171942,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171940\/revisions\/2171942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}