Independent British distributors Artificial Eye will release on Blu-ray director Michael Winterbottom's (24 Hour Party People, 9 Songs) Trishna (2011), starring Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, and Roshan Seth. The preliminary release date set by the distributors is July 9th.
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Trishna is a beautifully shot, classic tale of love and tragedy set across modern day rural Rajasthan and the thriving metropolis of Mumbai.
Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman, Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed), who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, their relationship must remain a secret due to the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education.