Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) is pushing ahead with Christmas Karma, a recent Bollywood musical set in London and impressed by Charles Dickens’ seminal A Christmas Carol, with Kunal Nayyar (The Massive Bang Concept) signed on to guide an ensemble solid.
Nayyar will star as Scrooge in pic alongside an expansive solid, together with 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 wrote the pic and is producing alongside directing, with music by Take That alum Gary Barlow alongside Shaznay Lewis and Nitin Sawhney. Financing for Christmas Karma is from Civic Studios. Gurinder Chadha, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, and Amory Chief will produce. Zygi Kamasa, Anushka Shah, Paul Mayeda Berges, Sophia Pedlow, and Hannah Chief will function govt producers.
Christmas Karma is the fifth scripted challenge from British distributor True Brit Leisure, which was shaped in November 2023. The function additionally sees Chadha’s return to the massive display screen following her time engaged on the Indian historic tv collection Beecham Home. Her final function movie, Blinded by the Mild, impressed by the music of Bruce Springsteen, debuted at Sundance in 2019. Warners Bros acquired the pic for a number of territories.
“Simply as I’ve loved Frank Capra’s It’s a Great Life for a few years, my goal with Christmas Karma is to create a festive basic for our occasions and for generations to come back,” Chadha mentioned. “I’m over the moon to be working with Zygi Kamasa who has supported me on this movie from the onset – and True Brit, which actually celebrates British cinema. I’m blessed with such an awesome various Solid and eclectic Music crew – the soundtrack will probably be banging, influenced by Gospel, Bhangra, Carols, and basic pop songs. You will be unable to sit down nonetheless.”
Kamasa added: “Gurinder has an unbelievable capability to inform such attention-grabbing modern British tales. It’s been over 20 years since we made Bend It Like Beckham collectively and this movie has all these hallmarks of coronary heart, comedy, drama, and an extremely feel-good ending. It is going to be a celebration of multi-cultural London set to an unbelievable set of songs written by Gary, Shaznay, and Nitin, utilizing musical genres from Rap, to disco to Bhangra, and would be the final Christmas film which we’ll launch in December 2025. It truly is the proper match to the vary of British movies we’ll launch at True Brit.”