Chadha?s next to star Kate Hudson

Gurinder chadha, the director of Bend It Like Beckham and Bride & Prejudice, will direct Hollywood star Kate Hudson in the adaptation of the hit American serial I Dream of Jeannie.

Gurinder chadha, the director of Bend It Like Beckham and Bride & Prejudice, will direct Hollywood star Kate Hudson in the adaptation of the hit American serial I Dream of Jeannie.

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Chadha, who paid a ‘Big Bollywood Homage’ to Jane Austen in Bride & Prejudice, is ready for her first full-fledged Hollywood film. “And that, too, a $75 million blockbuster... I hope to keep M Night Shyamalan company,” Chadha joked from Britain, where she was supervising the shooting of Mistress of Spices, with Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott.

I Dream of Jeannie is an “arabesque fantasy” about a “feisty girl from 200 BC” who gets 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 on Cocoa beach in Miami.

“I’ve finalised Kate Hudson to play Jeannie. We start shooting this summer in the US and Canada,” she said. “Kate conveys the vivacity and mystery of the main character.”