There’s some buzz surrounding plans to bring together western and Indian
music for the U.K.-theatre production of MM Kaye’s classic romantic novel “The
Far Pavilions”:
The original book, published in 1978, told the story of forbidden love between an Indian princess and a British army officer during the time of the Raj. To replicate the contrast between the two cultures that forms the essence of the book, the new musical, directed by Gale Edwards, has two composers – Philip Henderson, who is British, and Kuljit Bhamra, who is Indian. [BBC News]
Gurinder Chadha has got to be pissed. Her monopoly on brown-woman-white-man productions appears to have crumbled. Every KFC in her immediate vicinity is advised to prepare for an onslaught of takeout orders.
BBC News: Indian music tradition revived in musical
On a related-note, it seems the brown woman-white man-directed by a brown woman-thing is out: Marigold
please dear god, assure me that in Marigold we won’t have to suffer through another segment of Salman Khan whipping off his shirt and strutting around with that past-its-prime chest of his.
What’s hilarious is that this Kipling-esque, colonialist show is mainly funded by Brit Asian investors. It’s much like how South Asian Studies chairs, which invariably go to non-desis, are often endowed by wealthy techies.