Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding to make Broadway debut

Noted filmmaker Mira Nair is busy nowadays in the adaptation of her film Monsoon wedding into a musical broadway and as per the reports Vishal Bhardwaj has also flown to USA to join her for the same.

Vishal Bhardwaj has composed 12 songs for the musical. The readings of the adaptation are being helmed by Mira along with Mary-Mitchell Campbell as the musical director.

Monsoon Wedding also had a pinch of Bollywood masala with item number Chunari Chunari performed in the film but Nair says that the musical will not have that feel.

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"The choreographer of the musical is an American artist Bilty Jones who has his different adaptation so it will not Bollywood style dancing in the film," Nair said. But the director clarified that it is not going to be Amercanised or changed to suite a particular kind of audience.

"Not at all. It will be just like the film. Like a local folk for the world," she said. But filmmaker added that the grandeur of the wedding will be of a kind which could be wrapped up and then taken to different places.

"We plan to do a spectacular thing which can travel. It will not be all hi-tech at one place but something like we can wrap up and perform a 'Monsoon Wedding' where we want because it is essentially about a tent and a tent can be set up anywhere," Nair said.

Nair, 52, is an Indian filmmaker director and producer based in New York. Her 'Salaam Bombay', which chronicles the day-to-day life of children living on the streets of Mumbai, was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1989. The director was felicitated with the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for 'Monsoon Wedding'. Her latest outing is Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank and Richard Gere starrer 'Amelia' which is set to hit the theatres in March in India.

(With input from PTI)