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 hit Bend It Like Beckham during her trip to the festival. “Are there any Saudi scriptwriters here?” she asked the audience. “I was pitched a Saudi Bend It Like Beckham but I need a Saudi scriptwriter so we can write it together,” she said.
The 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 film have in the English language.
She talked, however, about her hopes to advance her dreams of making a Punjabi language feature, starring Munna Bhai M.B.B.S Bollywood veteran Sanjay Dutt. “I have would like to make a film in Punjabi and I have a great idea for a film,” she recounted. “One of my favorite actors is Sanjay Dutt.
I met his sister Priya Dutt and told her that I absolutely love her brother. She told me he loves speaking Punjabi. And I said, ‘That’s it, I am going to make a film with him in Punjabi.
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