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‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Director Gurinder Chadha to Make ‘A Christmas Carol’ Adaptation With Tory-Voting, ‘Refugee-Hating’ Indian Scrooge
Gurinder Chadha is set to make a diverse adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' with a refugee-hating, Tory-voting Indian Scrooge.
Chadha, best known for Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley starrer “ Bend it Like Beckham,” also said the film had support from True Brit Entertainment, the new distribution company set up by former Lionsgate U.K. and Europe head and Marv Studios CEO Zygi Kamasa. “It’s very close to Dickens’ original themes with the cost of living crisis in the Britain,” she said, admitting that she’d spoken to U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak about the film and he’d asked her not “make him look bad” (to which she responded “I don’t have to do that for you.”) But in making her Scrooge Indian, she said the film had proved a struggle to put together, with Chadha — despite being a hugely respected beloved director — being told that her that “it was not commercial and was small — it changes everything in terms of how you get it financed.”
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