After Aishwarya Rai in Bride & Prejudice , Gurinder Chadha is all set to direct Hollywood star Kate Hudson in the blockbuster adaptation of the hit American serial I Dream of Jeannie. Chadha, whose ?Big Bollywood Homage? to Jane Austen in Bride & Prejudice met with mixed responses in India and Britain, is ready for her first full-fledged Hollywood film.

?And that too a $75 million blockbuster... I hope to keep M Night Shyamalan company in the Hollywood blockbuster studio system,? Chadha joked from Britain, where she was supervising the shooting of husband Paul Berges? Mistress Of Spices with Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott.

Chadha?s next directorial project is an arabesque fantasy. ?It?s an adaptation of the hit American serial I Dream Of Jeannie , about a feisty girl from 200 BC who gets turned into a genie, is put in a bottle by an evil king and is hurled into space where 2,000 years later she crashes into a NASA astronaut and ends up on Cocoa beach in Miami. I?ve finalised Kate Hudson to play Jeannie. We start shooting this summer in the US and Canada,? she said.

<I>SUBHASH K JHA

Source: Times of India</I>