Director Gurinder Chadha will follow up "Bend It Like Beckham" with a modern-day Bollywood musical version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," reports Variety.
Mr. Darcy, the romantic lead, will be played by an American actor backed up by an all-star Bollywood cast to be announced shortly.
Chadha and her co-writer, Paul Mayeda Berges, are in India working on the music and lyrics. The writing and recording of the songs must be completed before the start of principal photography in India, the U.K. and the U.S.
The project is in early pre-production and will start shooting next March.