It picked up five Olivier Award nominations and won the London Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical. Though this is expressed through dialogue in the film, “we don’t see it expressed emotionally in a way that we do in the musical,” she adds. She liked the idea because Toronto’s “got a big Asian community, it’s a wonderful multicultural city” and because the “Bend It” film had done well at the Toronto International Film Festival. “It was a really good fit, rather than just going straight to New York or whatever,” says Chadha. When Chadha first conceived of the musical her parents were still alive, but they’ve both since passed away.

Source: thestar November 24, 2019 14:26 UTC