FREIDA PINTO TO PLAY NOOR INAYAT KHAN IN ‘SPY PRINCESS’

Freida Pinto will essay British spy Noor Inayat Khan in ‘Spy Princess’. Freida will also executive-produce the limited series based on Shrabani Basu’s book, ‘Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan’, reports deadline.com. Anand Tucker will direct the project and Olivia Hetreed will pen the screen adaptation based on the book, with Shrabani as Series Consultant. “She was a fierce and amazing woman, the most unlikely heroine of World War II. Sending women to the front line is controversial even now. Then it was unthinkable,” said Freida about Noor, the first Allied Forces female wireless operator sent into Nazi-occupied France in 1943. “Olivia has crafted Noor’s story into something very powerful, thrilling and extremely relevant,” she said. —Corres

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