Disney's first musical focusing on an Indian princess is in the works.

As reported by Deadline, the untitled movie will be written by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. Chadha will also direct and produce the project. It is reportedly under supervision by Sean Bailey, President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production. Lindy Goldstein, producer of The Nutcracker and The Four Realms, is producing the movie. No further details are known about the character's origin story.

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Bend It Like Beckham, a sports comedy-drama starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley, smashed U.K. box office records in 2002, taking in $76 million worldwide. It snagged a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), a BAFTA Award nomination for Best British Film and a nomination from the Writers Guild of America for Best Original Screenplay, among other awards. To date, Chadha's 33-year-long filmography has grossed $300 million worldwide.

Chadha is no stranger to musicals. In 2015, Chadha and Berges launched the musical version of Bend It Like Beckham in London’s West End, where it received numerous awards and praise from critics. In 2019, it was announced that Chadha would direct Netflix's adaptation of Pashmina, a 2017 graphic novel. The story is named after a pashmina shawl that an Indian-American teen girl uses to imagine her mother's Indian homeland and heritage. On that note, Indian history is also in Chadha's wheelhouse. In 2019, she produced a six-part BBC miniseries, Beecham House, set in early 19th century Dehli and centering on the Beechams, a family led by former East India Company soldier John Beecham.

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Disney princesses have emerged as pop-culture icons over the generations and cameoed in a variety of Disney movies. The 2018 Wreck-It Ralph sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet, featured 14 of the movie studio's famed heroines in minor roles. Several of them have seen live-action adaptations since, such as Mulan in 2020.

Chadha's Disney princess movie will add yet another character to Disney's growing lineup of heroines. Currently, 15 princesses beginning with Snow White in 1937 have starred in Disney princess movies, each defined by royal birth, royal marriage or significant feats or heroism. Disney has added several princesses of color in more recent times, starting with Jasmine in 1992's Aladdin. Raya, a Southeast Asian girl, was the most recent of Disney's princesses in 2021's Raya and The Last Dragon.

Source: Deadline