INDIAN SUMMER? Hollywood film on Indian subject.

Posted on September 9, 2009
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Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will reportedly play Lady Edwina Mountbatten in upcoming Hollywood movie “Indian Summer”, which will portray last days of British rule in India. Acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, while welcoming Hollywood attempts to show India’s history on big screen, urged the filmmakers to portray India’s historical events authentically.  The film will reportedly follow the important events during India’s Independence.The film willl go on floors early next year, to be released in 2011.

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The Universal Pictures drama will be reportedly directed by BAFTA winner Joe Wright (Atonement) and written by Oscar nominated William Nicholson (Gladiator), and will show Britain’s Lord Mountbatten handing over the power during the summer of 1947 to Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister.
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It is based on the book “Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire” by Alex von Tunzelmann. Film will reportedly follow the important events during India’s Independence. The story of the reported intense relationship between India’s first prime minister and the vivacious wife of its last British Viceroy is to be turned into a film that may not follow a “nuanced approach”. Film rights to a book, Alex von Tunzelmann’s “Indian Summer”, which gives details of “the intense love affair” between Jawaharlal Nehru and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, have been bought bythe British production company.

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The Sunday Times said English-born Hollywood star Hugh Grant was rumoured to be playing Lord Mountbatten and Cate Blanchett his wife. The book, published last year, focuses on the lives of five key actors surrounding India’s partition – Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Edwina and her husband Lord Mountbatten. But comments by the author published in the Sunday Times indicate a spotlight on the relationship between Nehru and Edwina – the subject of much popular history speculation.The author refused to reveal any more details about the film project but said she thought the relationship between Nehru and Edwina was “incredibly significant”.

NEHRU’S PUBLIC CONFESSION OF THE LOVE AFFAIR AT THE FAIRWELL OF EDWINA

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In the words of  von Tunzelmann-

“Whenever I read about Mountbatten, this story about Edwina’s affair with Nehru would come up, but all the historians kept brushing it away. “It was as if they were saying, ‘No serious historian would be interested in this affair.’ I kept thinking, ‘Well, actually, if twopeople in their situations had an affair, that was incredibly significant. She said if the relationship had been known to the world at the time of the partition, “the scandal would have dwarfed the abdication (by the British king). It would have decided the fate of nations”.“There are only two people who know whether their relationship was sexual, and they’re both dead. They were certainly in love. There was an extraordinary intimacy there.”

Various films have been made earlier  in India about British rule. British time, Freedom fighters, national leaders and on various subjects during this partion period. Many speculations has been done about  Edwina’s affair with Nehru. This is the first time a film will be made on this subject and it will be a treat for the Indians to watch this film and few Indian political parties will make full advantage of this film. This is definately going to be a very interesting subject to make a film upon and to watch as well.

JAI HO!

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