MUMBAI: PVR Pictures will release Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s Bel Ami on 16 March.

The film is based on an 1885 novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant.

Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy who travels through 1890s Paris and uses his wit and power of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

The film stars Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman.