After Brangelina’s A Mighty Heart, global audiences will get to see more of the sub-continent very soon.

While the Walt Disney Company is all set to shoot a historical in India by the year-end, Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic, of the Oscar-winning No Man’s Land, has planned a visit later this year for his next film that will supposedly include Indian actors. Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, was filmed across colourful Rajasthan three months ago.

Though representatives of Disney’s mega-budget film are not ready to make a formal announcement, the film, which will present a panoramic journey of India from the Aryans to Independence, will be shot at Nitin Desai’s picturesque Karjat studio.

“The project has been finalised, but Disney is yet to rope in a director. I have already begun my research on Indian history to present an authentic milieu of each era,” says Desai.

About Tanovic’s film, Shernaz Italia, partner, Film & Television, the line-producers of the film, says “It is set in the sub-continent and is likely to be shot in Delhi and other parts of north India.”

With Warner Bros scheduled to produce Mira Nair-directed Shantaram, set in Mumbai and starring Johnny Depp, local production houses are expecting more projects.

“We’re expecting three more prominent Hollywood studios to film in India by this year-end,” says Mozez Singh, a line producer of A Mighty Heart . “Besides low production cost and cheap labour, foreign productions are attracted to our technical expertise. With our crew English-proficient, communication is not an issue,” he adds.

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