Nehru-Edwina movie cancelled

[sher_khan]

I wonder how much of an influence their romance had on the partition? Any thoughts?


Universal Studios has cancelled the controversial film Indian Summer, which was being made on the alleged affair between India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Lady Edwina Mountbatten.

The film had hit a roadblock amid concerns over the budget. Director Joe Wright: said there were differences between producers and Indian government.

Wright in an interview to Variety magazine said there had been creative differences between the film's producers and the Indian government.

The movie was in news after the Indian government stepped in, asking the director to check the script to make sure Nehru was not portrayed in a negative light.

Australian actress Cate Blanchett was slated to play the role of Lady Mountbatten in the picture, which was set to begin filming in India next year.
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[sher_khan]

Blanchett had been cast as Edna Mountbatten, wife of Lord Mountbatten
Film studio Universal has cancelled historical drama Indian Summer, which was to star Cate Blanchett.

The decision to scrap the film - due to be shot in India - was mainly down to budgetary constraints, according to trade paper Variety.

Atonement director Joe Wright was to make the movie about the last days of Britain's colonial rule of India.

Both Wright and Blanchett will remain attached to the project for the foreseeable future, Variety added.



No scenes of physical intimacy between Nehru and Lady Mountbatten are allowed, no gestures or actions or words of love or affection between the two

BBC correspondent
Soutik Biswas on the Indian government's objections



Based on the non-fiction book Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, by Alex von Tunzelmann, the film was to have told the story of Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire.

Lord Mountbatten was sent to oversee the handover of power to Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister.

Blanchett had been cast as Lord Mountbatten's wife, Edwina.

There had been speculation in the Indian media that the film would focus on an alleged affair between Nehru and Lady Mountbatten.

Wright told Variety there had been creative differences between the film's producers and the Indian government.

"We were in between a rock and a hard place," he said.

"The Indian government wanted us to make less of the love story while the studio wanted us to make more of the love story while the studio wanted us to make more of the love story."


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