National Award-winning filmmaker Srijit Mukherji is set to direct a feature film based on the life of Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the legendary detective ‘Sherlock Holmes’, reported Variety.

To be produced under the British-Indian co-production, the feature, titled ‘Elementary, My Dear Holmes,’ has secured backing from the Conan Doyle Estate as associate producer, with Shahnaab Alam producing through London-based Invisible Thread Media and Mukherji’s Matchcut Productions handling the India side.

According to the outlet, the movie will be set in 1906 London, where the narrative finds Doyle grappling with personal turmoil, including his dying wife’s wish for him to marry another woman, while becoming embroiled in the case of George Edalji, a wrongfully convicted man of Indian descen

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