Updated On: 02 April, 2025 10:17 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
The documentary captures Simpson’s emotional return to India as he attempts to locate his birth family armed with only fragmentary childhood memories

Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the producer of the film. Pics/AFP
Tribeca Films has acquired Born Hungry, the documentary feature produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s Purple Pebble Pictures and Barry Avrich’s Melbar Entertainment Group.
According to Variety.com, the film chronicles the extraordinary life story of celebrity chef Sash Simpson. Directed and produced by Avrich, Born Hungry follows Simpson’s journey from abandonment as a young boy in India— where he survived by eating from garbage bins on the streets of Chennai—to his adoption by a Canadian couple and rise to culinary prominence. The documentary captures Simpson’s emotional return to India as he attempts to locate his birth family armed with only fragmentary childhood memories.