Phantom Films, a production house co-owned by Anurag Kashyap , Vikramaditya Motwane , Vikas Bahl and Madhu Mantena , has acquired the rights of Krishna Udayasankar's popular book Immortal from Hachette India and is planning to develop it as a trilogy on Ashwathama in a modern context. The book tells the story of a flawed hero, who cannot die but continues to suffer unbearable pain as a consequence of it. Immortal is the modern-day telling of the story of the legendary misunderstood warrior, Ashwathama, who having been given the curse of immortality by Krishna, has been roaming the earth for millennia in search of mortality. As a result, the story also (in a way) spans 4000 years!

Madhu Mantena of Phantom Films confirms the news, saying, “We are very proud to announce this magnificent project as a Trilogy on Ashwathama in a modern context. It’s a very powerful story written beautifully by Krishna Udayasankar. The concept is something that has not been experienced on the big screen before and that too on such a huge scale. We are very excited to start this journey.”

With such a massive project in the making, we are quite curious to know who the makers sign to play lead characters in it.