Source: Rick Bhatia/Jenny Gage+ Tom Betterton/True Brit
Christmas Karma, forwhich Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment holds UK and Ireland rights. Filming is scheduled to begin on April 22. The executive producers are Kamasa, Paul Mayeda Berges, Sophia Pedlow and Hannah Leader. Executive producers are Kamasa, Paul Mayeda Berges, Sophia Pedlow and Hannah Leader.Further financing is coming from Anushka Shah’s Mumbai and London-based Civic Studios.
The Bollywood musical retelling of
A Christmas Carol
will also star musicians Boy George, Pixie Lott, Billy Porter, Eve, with Bilal Hasna, a 2023 Screen International UK Star of Tomorrow, Charithra Chandran, Leo Suter, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Nitin Ganatra, Allan Corduner and Rufus Jones.Chadha’s credits include Bend It Like Beckham,
Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging and Blinded By The Light. The latter premiered in 2019 at Sundance. Take That’s Gary Barlow has written the music with All Saintssinger Shaznay Lewis and composer Nitin Sawhney.Christmas Karma
will draw parallels between the cost-of-living crisis in contemporary London and the poverty in Charles Dickens’s London. Chadha, who spoke at the UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee in January, discussed the difficulties she faced in trying to secure funding for an Indian-led British film. She revealed that when she told UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak about the film, he said “Don’t Make Me Look Bad.” Chadha replied “I don’t have to do this for you.”
