New
Delhi:
US-based
Indian
filmmaker
Mira
Nair's
musical
adaptation
of
her
2001
super
hit
Monsoon
Wedding
will
begin
rehearsals
in
September,
while
she
plans
to
shoot
her
next
film
in
Uganda
in
2014.
Set
in
the
national
capital,
Monsoon
Wedding,
produced
under
the
banner
of
Mirabai
Films,
revolved
around
a
typical
Punjabi
wedding
laced
with
a
hefty
dose
of
emotion
and
drama.
Talking
to
IANS,
the
55-year-old
Mira
Nair
said,
"I
am
doing
Monsoon
Wedding
on
Broadway.
That's
what
I
am
doing
now.
We
have
about
seven
or
eight
songs
done
out
of
the
11.
We
also
have
the
book
written
and
we
will
enter
rehearsals
in
September
in
New
York."
The
award-winning
director
started
her
career
with
documentaries
and
ventured
into
feature
films
with
1988
movie
Salaam
Bombay!,
which
won
several
awards
and
even
got
an
Oscar
nomination
for
Best
Foreign
Language
Film.
She
is
known
for
making
films
like
Mississippi
Masala,
Vanity
Fair,
Amelia
and
The
Namesake.
Her
most
recent
offering
was
The
Reluctant
Fundamentalist,
which
had
a
mix
cast
that
included
Britain-based
Pakistani
origin
actor
Riz
Ahmed
in
the
lead
along
with
Hollywood
actors
Kate
Hudson
and
Liev
Schreiber
and
Bollywood
veterans
Om
Puri
and
Shabana
Azmi.
Based
on
Pakistani
author
Mohsin
Hamid's
novel
of
the
same
name,
The
Reluctant
Fundamentalist
is
about
a
young
man
chasing
corporate
success
on
Wall
Street
and
struggling
between
his
American
dream,
a
hostage
crisis
and
the
enduring
call
of
his
family's
homeland.
Nair
has
also
directed
a
segment
in
the
upcoming
film
Words
With
Gods.
Her
segment
is
called
"God
Room" featuring
Bollywood
actors
Tanuja,
Ram
Kapoor,
Richa
Chadda,
Raj
Kumar
Yadav
and
Vinay
Pathak.
The
script
for
the
film
has
been
written
by
Bollywood
director
Zoya
Akhtar
and
the
story
revolves
around
a
rich
family
arguing
over
where
the
prayer
room
should
be.
Meanwhile,
Nair
has
been
roped
in
to
direct
a
Ugandan
film
based
on
the
real
story
of
an
eight-year-old
girl,
Phiona
Mutesi,
from
the
slums
who
became
one
of
the
finest
chess
players,
taking
on
the
grandmasters.
"It's
a
true
story,
I
have
just
signed
the
deal
for
the
film.
I
am
starting
to
research
and
we
will
shoot
next
year.
The
movie
will
be
filmed
in
Uganda," the
director
told
IANS
while
she
was
here
to
promote
The
Reluctant
Fundamentalist.
Nair
praised
the
girl
saying,
she
is
"amazing,
very
modest
and
quiet".
"I
have
met
the
girl.
If
you
see
where
she
has
come
from
and
what
she
has
achieved,
entirely
through
the
dint
of
her
own
mind,
it
is
very
amazing.
But
she
is
also
very
modest,
she
is
very
quiet,
and
she
is
not
easy
to
get
to
know
in
a
way.
I
am
looking
forward
to
know
her
better,
I
have
just
met
her
once," said
the
acclaimed
filmmaker.
(IANS)