Freida Pinto, Anurag Kashyap are co-producing partners in Trishna

Mumbai: Frieda Pinto, who shot to worldwide fame after the multi-Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, has ventured into co-producing a film.

The other co-producing partners of Trishna are Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga and Sunil Bohra.

Directed by Michel Winterbottom, Trishna is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy‘s classic novel Tess of d‘Urbervilles.

The novel has been relocated to India and will follow the tragic relationship between Jay, the son of a property developer, and Trishna, the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.

The film also stars British rapper Riz Ahmed, earlier seen in The Road To Guantanamo, Shifty and Four Lions.