Chadha’s 12 million pound musical Bride and Prejudice, to be released next month
London, September 20, 2004
PTINRI film director Gurinder Chadha's much-awaited Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood-style screen adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, has elevated her to the level of an international filmmaker.
Chadha has become a mainstream international filmmaker with the 12 million pound musical Bride and Prejudice, to be released next month.
The current edition of Newsweek puts Chadha at the head of a new breed of talented women directors who are increasingly being trusted with star names and hefty studio projects.
However, Chadha asserts her soon-to-be-released Aishwarya Rai starrer is not a simple parody. "What I've ended up with is nods to Bollywood and to Hollywood and elements of it feel like the movie Grease. But it is actually a very British movie," she said.
The film revolves around one Bakshi family from Amritsar with four daughters. Aishwarya plays the lead role in the film.
The actress, known as the Queen of Bollywood, has been tipped as a future Bond girl.
Chadha's next film is a $90 million Hollywood juggernaut which is intriguingly pitched as a prequel to I dream of Jeannie, a kitsch 1960s television comedy about a voluptuous girl who lives inside a bottle in a suburban home.
