Gurinder Chadha revealed in an In-Conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival on Saturday, that she had been approached about collaborating on a local version of her hit 2002…
“Are there any Saudi scriptwriters here?” she asked the audience. “I was pitched a SaudiThe Kenya-born British filmmaker, whose Indian family moved to the U.K. from East Africa in the 1960s, also speaks Punjabi, but until now all her films have been in the English language.She talked, however, about her hopes to advance her dreams of making a Punjabi language feature, starring“I have would like to make a film in Punjabi and I have a great idea for a film,” she recounted.
She explained how her life and worldview had been shaped by the fact that her grandfather’s family had originally hailed from the Indian Punjab district of Jhelum, which became part of Pakistan under the 1947 partition. The family home she recalled had been a first port of call for many other East African Indians who also later moved to Britain.
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