(courtesy First Showing)
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An early Xmas gift… Christmas Karma sees ones of the greatest novels – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – transformed into a joyous, colourful, feel-good Christmas musical that celebrates modern-day London and all of its communities and cultures. Told from Chadha’s unique point of view and in her own distinctive style, the film resonates with Dickens’ masterful statement on the human condition, exploring themes of prejudice, acceptance, reconciliation, identity & belonging. Inspired by Frank Capra’s timeless It’s A Wonderful Life, Christmas Karma is a festive British classic for our times, and for generations to come, that promotes a strong message to be kind, choose love and celebrate the present. Christmas Karma is directed by acclaimed British-Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha, director of the films Bhaji on the Beach, What’s Cooking?, Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice, Angus Thongs & Perfect Snogging, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, Viceroy’s House, and the musical Blinded by the Light previously. The screenplay is also by Gurinder Chadha; based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Produced by Gurinder Chadha, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Amory Leader. (courtesy First Showing)
The adaptations of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Christmas Carol are multidinous in the extreme.
Thankfully among the many, many nods to that classic tome are absolute standouts like A Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged and Spirited, and now, rather happily, Christmas Karma.
It looks absolutely wonderful – funny, heartfelt and very, very British which the tone and feel of the original novel perfectly; it also screams original and clever which is quite a feat given the ubiquitous presence of the source story in the public consciousness.
Christmas Karma releases in UK on 14 November and in Australia on 27 November.