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BAFTA sets 2025 film award date, Gurinder Chadha casts Christmas movie

Regular film festival attendees may note that the BAFTA awards will, once again, be held during the Berlinale, set to run February 13-23, with their likely to be a spike in industry professional flying back to London on the morning of the 16th. Gurinder Chadha has lined up the cast for “Christmas Karma,” a contemporary Bollywood musical set in contemporary London and inspired by Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Kunal Nayyar (“The Big Bang Theory”) will lead the film as Scrooge, while the rest of the cast includes Eva Longoria, Boy George, Billy Porter, Hugh Bonneville, Leo Suter, Charithra Chandran, Pixie Lott, Danny Dyer, Bilal Hasna, Allan Corduner, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rufus Jones, Eve and Nitin Ganatra. Chadha (“Bend It Like Beckham,” “Blinded by the Light”) wrote, is directing and producing the feature, with music by former Take That star Gary Barlow alongside Shaznay Lewis and Nitin Sawhney.

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