Richa
Chadha
and
Ali
Fazal
have
turned
producers
for
a
coming
of
age
story
titled,
Girls
Will
Be
Girls.
The
couple
who
collaborated
for
Fukrey
as
actors,
will
be
launching
director
Shuchi
Talati
along
with
their
banner
Pushing
Buttons
Studios.
Set
in
an
elite
boarding
school
in
a
small
Himalayan
hill
town,
the
story
is
about
16-year-old
Mira,
whose
sexy,
rebellious
coming-of-age
is
hijacked
by
her
mother
who
never
got
to
'come-of-age'.
Mother
and
daughter
grow
up
together
through
the
course
of
the
script
and
their
fraught,
but
ultimately
loving
relationship
is
the
beating
heart
of
the
film.
Praising
the
director,
Richa
called
the
film
"relatable,
often
cruel
but
never
hopeless
or
nihilistic".
Girls
Will
Be
Girls
follows
a
mother-daughter
duo
which
has
been
"under-explored
in
Indian
and
world
cinema," said
Richa.
"It's
honest
awkwardness
will
make
you
chuckle,
not
weep.
It's
full
of
relatable,
lived-in
episodes
that
one
finds
oddly
satisfying
-
like
popping
a
zit.
The
mother
in
our
story
routinely
dodges
the
self-sacrificing
stereotype
of
the
typical
Indian
mom
-
she's
complicated,
grey,
and
not
a
martyr," she
said
in
a
statement.
Chadha
and
Shuchi
reportedly
go
way
back
as
they
have
previously
co-directed
a
documentary
about
adults
living
with
autism
and
Down's
syndrome
as
students
at
Mumbai's
Sophia
College.
Meanwhile,
Fazal
said
the
first
is
special
and
"I
am
also
excited
that
our
studio
will
enter
the
market
with
such
a
progressive,
female-led
story.
We
hope
to
be
able
to
tell
thought-provoking
and
universal
stories
with
humour
and
love."
Girls
Will
Be
Girls
is
co-produced
by
Sanjay
Gulati
of
Crawling
Angel
Films
and
Claire
Chassagne
of
French
banner
Dolce
Vita
Film.