Amazon to adapt The Jungle Prince of Delhi based on The New York Times' report of a fake royal family

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The November 2019 Times story was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, telling "the story of the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats living in a ruined palace in the Indian capital, claiming to be the heirs to a fallen kingdom," per Deadline. "Written by Ellen Barry, it turns out that Prince Cyrus, who claimed to be a member of the Muslim kingdom captured by the British East India company in the 19th century was in fact Mickey Butt, the son of the registrar of Lucknow University." Mira Nair, director of the films Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding, will direct and executive produce the potential series.