Kathak maestro Birju Maharaj’s life inarguably has enough fodder for the making of a biopic. Who better than his nephew Harsh Mishra, a VFX supervisor and director? Harsh’s horror short The Last Ride won awards at the Cult Cinema Film Festival and Shankhnaad Film Festival earlier this year.

“We have biopics on sports icons, and actors but none on a classical legend. We know Pt Birju Maharaj ji as a choreographer, who was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, but we don’t know anything about his journey, struggle, and legacy,” says Mishra of his uncle, who passed away on January 16 at the age of 84. The inspirational offering will be a celebration of the art of kathak, and will showcase how Pt Birju Maharaj adapted it for modern times.