‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star Freida Pinto to play World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan in new collection

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor Freida Pinto might be essaying the position of Britain’s World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan in an upcoming restricted collection.

Based on Shrabani Basu’s “Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan”, the undertaking hails from author Olivia Hetreed and Red Room Films, reported Deadline.

Khan was born in Moscow in 1914 to Indian father Hazrat Inayat Khan and American mom Ora Ray Baker.

She was despatched to Nazi-occupied France in 1943 as an undercover radio operator for Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE).

But Khan was betrayed, arrested and killed in Dachau Concentration Camp on the age of 30.

“She was a fierce and wonderful lady, probably the most unlikely heroine of World War 2. Sending girls to the entrance line is controversial even now. Then it was unthinkable.

Sending a Sufi mystic, who will not use a gun, daughter of a long-haired Indian Guru who preaches love and peace “ridiculous! “But Noor thrives, not regardless of her variations, however due to them,” Pinto, who may even function an government producer on the collection, stated.

The 36-year-old actor asserted that she goals to discover Khan’s internal wrestle and complicated sense of responsibility together with her portrayal.

Pinto is understood for motion pictures equivalent to “Slumdog Millionaire”, “Immortals” and “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”.

The collection might be directed by Anand Tucker, who beforehand helmed movies like “Hilary and Jackie”, “Shopgirl” and “Leap Year”.

The life story of Khan was most not too long ago depicted in a movie from filmmaker Sarah Megan Thomas.

Actor Radhika Apte portrayed Khan within the film, which was not too long ago launched on Amazon Prime Video.