Balle Balle for Bride & Prejudice
by: Udita Jhunjhunwala
- mid-day.com
Gurinder Chadha and producer Deepak Nayar have fixed a simultaneous UK and India release for their film Bride and Prejudice. On October 8, the English film with a Bollywood soul will open across the two countries.
Nayar will distribute the film in India through his company Kintop Pictures (which released The Passion of The Christ here too).
Interestingly, Bride and Prejudice, which stars Aishwarya Rai, Namrata Shirodkar and Martin Henderson, will also be released as a dubbed Hindi version.
On a fleeting visit to Mumbai, Nayar said, “We have titled the Hindi version Balle Balle — Amritsar to LA!” He added that the lyrics, by Farhan and Zoya Akhtar, have been translated into Hindi by Javed Akhtar.
Universal Music is said to have paid a whopping amount for the soundtrack (by Anu Malik) which also features R & B artiste Ashanti. England-based DJ Rishi Rich is being roped in for a remix of the Punjabi song Balle Balle, Soniya De Rang Dekho.
Bride and Prejudice will have its US release only towards the end of the year. In the meanwhile, Nayar will get stuck into his two new projects.
“I am producing The Mistress Of Spices which goes into production from January. Gurinder will be producing that with me and her husband Paul Mayeda Berges is directing.” The film will be shot in London-Isle of Man-India-Oakland (California)."
“The other project is Sacred Thread, directed by Mahesh Mathai. This is a supernatural thriller set between India and England. It’s in the vein of a Manoj Night Shyamalan film.”
Nayar has approached Navin Andrews and Neve Campbell for Sacred Thread.
