Gurinder Chadha featured in article on women directors
Gurinder Chadha, director of BRIDE AND PREJUDICE, is featured in a Newsweek article about women directors attempting to conquer the “celluloid ceiling:”
When British director Gurinder Chadha started work on “Bend It Like Beckham,” she was determined to prove that a film with an Asian star could be a mainstream commercial success. Now Chadha is taking her inventive melding of East and West a step further: her new film, “Bride and Prejudice,” due out next month, features the Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai in her first English-language role, and transplants Jane Austen’s 19th-century country-house classic to 21st-century India, Britain and Los Angeles. “I wanted to show that there is an alternative to Hollywood,” says Chadha. “I wanted to do a Bollywood-style movie for audiences around the world. I thought because I would be introducing new concepts and styles, it would be best to use a story that people were familiar with.”
In other B&P news, we (probably should not use the editorial “we” there–the AustenBlog reporters may be swifter on the uptake than Your Gentle Editor) did not realize that the actor portraying the Bingley character in the film, Naveen Andrews, was the actor who portrayed the Sikh soldier in THE ENGLISH PATIENT, upon whom Your Gentle Editor developed a minor crush. 
He will also be in the new ABC (U.S.) TV series LOST.
