Asia Argento (“Agony”), Golshifteh Farahani (“Extraction”) and Jim Sarbh (“Made in Heaven”) star in the voice cast of Ishan Shukla’s animated feature “Schirkoa,” production on which begins in the spring.The voice cast also includes Soko (“Little Fish”) and Arish Ahmad Khan aka King Khan, front man of Berlin-based garage rock and psychedelic soul band King Khan and the Shrines, with filmmaker Gaspar Noe (“Climax”) and actor-musician Piyush Mishra (“Sanju”) appearing as Vo guest stars.
The soundtrack will be composed by Sneha Khanwalkar (“Gangs of Wasseypur”).The film tells the story of a bored office worker, who may have accidentally sparked a revolution in a bizarre dystopian world, Schirkoa, where citizens live with paper bags on their heads to dissolve political, cultural and religious differences.Shukla’s Indian animation studio Red Cigarette Media will produce the English-language feature.
Co-producers are Dissidenz Films’ Tran Bich-Quan (France), Rapid Eye Movies’ Stephan Holl
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