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Beckham, Gurinder Chadha's inspirational comedy about a young woman (Parminder Nagra) who flouts her traditional Sikh family values to achieve soccer stardom, is the model for this transcultural form. The film, made for about $6 million, earned $32.5 million in North American theaters and an additional $44 million abroad. It has also given Chadha a chance to try making the first crossover Bollywood-style musical: Bride and Prejudice, with Jane Austen's Bennet family transformed into Anglo-Indians and Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai in the lead. "It's got the love story, it's got the songs...
...show. A string of Western film roles will follow: Coline Serreau's Chaos, in which she plays a prostitute who is rescued by a housewife, played by Meryl Streep; Singularity, a historical drama about British colonial India from Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields); and Bride and Prejudice, director Gurinder Chadha's follow-up to her 2002 hit Bend It Like Beckham. None of that means Rai has given up Bollywood. She's starring in four Indian films to be released this year and has signed for five more...
...case began nine years ago when Chadha found himself the proverbial man without a country. Born in Kenya of Indian parents and holding a British passport, Chadha was trying to return home after six years at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he earned an undergraduate degree in business and master's degrees in political science and economics. Kenya refused to take him because they said he was a British subject, he recalls, and Britain told him he would have to wait a year. He wrote to U.S. immigration officials about citizenship, but was again rebuffed. After...
...Chadha found lawyers who would represent him for free in an appeal. He supported himself as a teacher's aide, tennis instructor and stock boy. "The funds were weak," he says, "but the will was strong." He finally got a favorable ruling from the Justice Department, but Congress vetoed Chadha and five others from a list of 340 aliens to be granted permanent resident status. Washington Attorney Alan Morrison, director of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, asked to take over. Chadha agreed, and went to the federal courts. Along the way he married Terry Lorentz, an American high school...
...payment for long years of work, Chadha bought Morrison two bottles of celebratory champagne. But, even with the Supreme Court on his side, Chadha still has to wait for official word on his status from the I.N.S. Says Morrison: "My hope is that he will be a citizen by July...