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‘Gurugram School Murder’ Book Gets Screen Adaptation From Matchbox Shots
India’s Matchbox Shots has acquired the screen rights to “The Gurugram School Murder,” crime journalist Leena Dhankhar’s account of the 2017 killing of a child at an elite school in Gurugram. The adaptation draws from Dhankhar’s reporting on one of India’s most prominent criminal cases. On Sept. 8, 2017, a seven-year-old boy known publicly as […]
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According to Variety’s source item, ‘Gurugram School Murder’ Book Gets Screen Adaptation From Matchbox Shots, India’s Matchbox Shots has acquired the screen rights to “The Gurugram School Murder,” crime journalist Leena Dhankhar’s account of the 2017 killing of a child at an elite school in Gurugram. The adaptation draws from Dhankhar’s reporting on one of India’s most prominent criminal cases. On Sept. 8, 2017, a seven-year-old boy known publicly as […]
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- ‘Gurugram School Murder’ Book Gets Screen Adaptation From Matchbox ShotsVariety - 2026-05-27T04:00:00+00:00
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