Chadha set to direct Kate

Mumbai:

After Aishwarya Rai in “Bride & Prejudice”, Gurinder Chadha is all set to direct Hollywood star Kate Hudson in the blockbuster adaptation of the hit American serial “I Dream of Jeannie”.

Chadha, whose ‘Bride & Prejudice’ met with mixed responses, is ready for her first full-fledged Hollywood film. “And that too a $75 million blockbuster... I hope to keep M Night Shyamalan company,” she joked from Britain where she was supervising the shooting of husband Paul Berges’ ‘Mistress Of Spices’ with Aishwarya and Dylan McDermott. Chadha’s next project is an arabesque fantasy. “It’s an adaptation of the hit American serial, about a feisty girl from 200 BC who is turned into a genie, is put in a bottle by an evil king and is hurled into space where 2,000 years later she crashes into a NASA astronaut and ends up in Miami. — HNS

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