Americanizing Shelley is a 2007 Hollywood romantic comedy film directed by Lorraine Senna and starring Beau Bridges, Namrata Singh Gujral, Shaheen Khan, Wil Wheaton, Noureen DeWulf, Tony Yalda, and Ajay Mehta.[1] The film was the closing film of the 2007 Nashville Film Festival.[2]

Americanizing Shelley
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Directed byLorraine Senna
Written byNamrata Singh Gujral
Produced byUniGlobe Entertainment
StarringNamrata Singh Gujral
Beau Bridges
Wil Wheaton
Noureen DeWulf
RonReaco Lee
Phillip Rhys
CinematographyChristo Bakalov
Edited byTroy Takaki
Music byJay Ferguson
Production
company
UniGlobe Entertainment
Distributed byUniGlobe Entertainment
Release date
  • April 26, 2007 (2007-04-26) (Nashville)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Premise

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Gujral stars as Shalini Singh/Shelley, an Indian woman who comes to the United States from a Himalayan village to find her fiance and crosses paths with a movie producer who tries to "Americanize" her in order to make her a star.

Music

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The song, Dancin' In The Clouds, was cut as a collaboration between country star Steve Azar and Namrata Singh Gujral for the film. The single is a "country rock-meets-"Bollywood" style duet, which made Azar and Gujral the first artists to place an Eastern language (Hindi) in country music. It also made Gujral the first Eastern artist ever to make air on CMT. Hollywood composer Jay Ferguson of Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne fame produced the single.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Anderson, John (April 27, 2007). "Americanizing Shelley".
  2. ^ "FESTIVALS | Nashville Marries Film and Music with 'Southern Goodness'". April 23, 2007.
  3. ^ David Light. "Best of both worlds". Khaleej Times. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
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