Celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair’s stage musical adaptation of her 2001 movie Monsoon Wedding will premiere in India in November, 2021. During a virtual masterclass at Busan Film Festival, Nair said the musical will first open in India and then in Singapore, Dubai and London.
“We are going to open next year, November 2021. First in India, and then in Singapore, and Dubai, perhaps, and then bring it to London and the United States. It’s a wonderful musical with music from Vishal Bhardwaj, one of our great composers, 21 new songs,” said Nair.
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The 63-year-old director said the musical beautifully captures the spirit of the film.
“It is very, very close to the film in spirit, but it’s a stage musical. And that’s the something that I have been working on very painstakingly for 10-11 years. So now we are ready. And we’re looking for COVID to leave us so that we can open on the big stages,” Nair added.
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The film had its world premiere as a stage musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2017.