# Rashaana Shah & Manasi Parekh Join $10M AIF Media Fund; Initial Slate Headed By Rick Moody Adaptation ‘Purple America’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/rashaana-shah-initial-slate-headed-by-rick-moody-adaptation-purple-america/
- Published: 2026-08-28T10:01:52+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-28T10:18:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/08/rashaana-shah-manasi-parekh-rick-moody-purple-america-1237061746/
- Topics: Art, Asia, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Music, World

## Key points

- New Indian media fund raises $10 million for international projects.
- Shah and Parekh join its advisory board.
- Rick Moody adaptation leads its first three-film slate.

## Summary

Indian actress-producers Rashaana Shah and Manasi Parekh have joined Parthiv Gohil on the advisory board of AIF Media Fund Orenda Creative, a new India-based investment platform for international films and documentaries. The fund has raised an initial $10 million and aims to connect investors with commercially viable, artistically ambitious projects, including cross-border co-productions.

Its first three projects are an adaptation of Rick Moody’s novel Purple America, the mystery thriller Nanda Devi and coming-of-age drama Laxman. Purple America, about a troubled son caring for his terminally ill mother, is being written and directed by Travis Hodgkins and is expected to begin production in the first quarter of next year; Nanda Devi concerns plutonium lost during a covert Himalayan mission, while Laxman follows siblings who establish a refuge for abandoned cows after experiencing poverty.

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