Matchbox Shots Acquires Screen Rights to 'The Gurugram School Murder' Book
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Summary
Matchbox Shots, a Mumbai-based production house, has acquired the screen rights to Leena Dhankhar's book "The Gurugram School Murder," which details the 2017 killing of a seven-year-old boy (known as Prince) at an elite school in Gurugram, India. The case gained national attention after local police initially arrested an innocent bus conductor before the Central Bureau of Investigation charged a fellow student with the murder. The adaptation will be based on Dhankhar's reporting on one of India's most prominent criminal cases.
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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 Prince was found with his throat slit inside a school bathroom.
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