MUMBAI — Uday Chopra, younger son of the late Hindi film director Yash Chopra, set up a subsidiary of his father's production house in Los Angeles and this year appeared on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet alongside Nicole Kidman.



His three-year-old company Yash Raj Films (YRF) Entertainment co-produced the recent "Grace of Monaco" starring Kidman, upcoming Jason Bateman comedy "The Longest Week" and is finalizing the script of "Seducing Ingrid Bergman". The job has made Chopra one of only a handful of Indians in Hollywood, where he hopes to match the success of his father and award-winning filmmaker brother, Aditya Chopra, back home.



"I wanted to do something challenging and be a part of filmmaking because that is all I know."



Chopra then opened up to new possibilities, and one of his upcoming projects is "a female-centric thriller based in India".



"It's a completely American movie but with India as a backdrop. I can leverage my strength in India as a line producer," he said.



He wants the film to portray India "in a dark and gritty way" and challenge typical perceptions of the country.



"People in the West think 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a Bollywood film and they have that one image of India —  dirty and crazy," he added, referring to the Oscar-winner directed by Britain's Danny Boyle. — AFP