It"s
a
Wonderful
Afterlife,
Gurinder
Chadha"s
latest
English
film,
which
was
earlier
dubbed
in
Punjabi
and
called
Hai
Mar
Java,
has
been
scrapped
and
will
have
a
Hindi
version.
Starring
Shabana
Azmi,
Sendhil
Ramamurthy,
Sanjeev
Bhaskar
and
Goldy
Notay,
the
movie
is
about
a
Punjabi
NRI
mother
in
Britain
(played
by
Shabana)
whose
only
worry
in
life
is
to
get
her
daughter
married.
Shabana,
who
had
to
learn
Punjabi
just
for
the
film,
isn"t
impressed
by
the
decision
to
scrap
the
Punjabi
version.
Although
Gurinder
denied
that
the
Punjabi
version
had
been
scrapped,
Shabana
confirmed
it
and
stated
that
the
Punjabi
version
was
done
away
with
because
it
didn"t
have
a
pan-India
appeal
and
that
Hindi
works
better
in
the
country.
She
is
now
dubbing
for
the
film
in
Hindi.
Gurinder,
however,
states
that
the
Punjabi
version
hasn"t
been
scrapped
and
that
it"s
Punjabi
with
a
Hindi
flavour.
The
film"s
English
version
will
be
releasing
in
UK
on
April
23rd
and
May
7th
is
the
release
date
for
the
Hindi
version.