Writer-director Jemima Khan said she wanted to challenge “preconceptions that a lot of people in the West have about arranged marriages” when she tackled her first script for the movie “I had wanted to make a film that showed Pakistan in a more colorful and hospitable and positive light than perhaps we usually see in our screens in the West,” said Khan, who lived in the country for a decade after marrying her former husband Imran Khan, a Pakistani politician and cricketer.
She added, “That’s not to say that there isn’t a big difference with a forced marriage and the unhappy examples but I’m talking about the majority, which are done consensually, which are therefore often happy.” stars Lily James as a documentary filmmaker and dating app addict whose eyes are soon opened to the potential of an arranged marriage when her childhood friend Kaz heads to Lahore to marry a stranger chosen by his parents.
The film reunites Azmi with director Shekhar Kapur after the duo worked together on Kapur’s first film, “It was very rewarding for me to see that we were coming back after so long and it didn’t seem like there had been a gap at all,” said the Bollywood star. “I must say that the reason that I jumped at the film is because Shekhar rang me up and said, ‘Listen, this is very good script.’”
Looking forward to watching this film!
Sounds like what people go to the movies for