Bollywood is coming to Broadway.
“Come Fall in Love — The DDLJ Musical,” primarily based on the Indian filmmaker Aditya Chopra’s 1995 hit “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,” which has turn into a cultural touchstone of latest Bollywood, will open in the course of the 2022-23 season, producers introduced on Friday.
The movie, which was Chopra’s directorial debut at age 23, is a romantic comedy that tells the story of Simran, a younger Indian American girl who’s organized to be married to a household buddy who convinces her strict father that she ought to have a summer season journey in Europe first. (An enthralling American throws a wrench into her logical plans.)
Chopra, who additionally wrote the film, generally known as “DDLJ” and whose title is translated as “The Braveheart Will Take the Bride,” mentioned in a press release on Friday that he was excited to marry the worlds of theater and movie within the undertaking, which he’ll direct.
“Twenty-six years later, I’m going again to my authentic imaginative and prescient of the story of ‘DDLJ,’” he mentioned, “a love story of two cultures … two worlds.”
He added, “I’m terribly nervous and extremely excited.”
The present shall be produced by Yash Raj Movies, India’s largest movie studio, and will probably be a collaboration between an American and Indian inventive group. Nell Benjamin (“Legally Blonde,” “Imply Women”) will write the ebook and lyrics, and the Indian songwriters Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani will compose the music. Choreography shall be by Rob Ashford, who received a Tony Award for “Totally Trendy Millie,” and Derek McLane (“Moulin Rouge!,” “Hairspray Dwell!”) will design the set.
The musical can have its world premiere on the Outdated Globe Theater in San Diego in September 2022, with Broadway dates to be introduced later.
“DDLJ,” one of many highest-grossing Indian films of all time, was a hit with critics in addition to on the field workplace and positioned twelfth on the British Movie Institute’s checklist of the highest Indian movies of all time.
Writing for RogerEbert.com in 2012, Omer M. Mozaffar characterised the movie as a Bollywood model of a Disney princess story, with a younger girl “feeling trapped by the normal patriarchy, looking for freedom by means of discovering the world, however lastly discovering it by means of silent, however inappropriate love.”
A world casting search is underway.