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Mahesh Narayanan and Shalini Usha Devi team up for biopic on India's first F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan

Mahesh Narayanan and Shalini Usha Devi team up for biopic on India's first F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan

NK 370's screenplay is being penned by writer-filmmaker Shalini Usha Devi, who earlier co-wrote the Suriya-starrer Soorarai Pottru—a film that earned her the National Award for Best Screenplay, an honour she shared with director Sudha Kongara. Reflecting on the prestigious opportunity to spotlight a subject rarely explored in Indian cinema, Shalini said exclusively to CE, 'At its heart, the NK story is the impossible journey of a kid from 1990s Coimbatore, to the starting grid of a Formula 1 race, the pinnacle of motorsport, in the early 2000s. As it is one of the few racing films to emerge from the country, it gives us the opportunity to craft a whole new cinematic vocabulary.'
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