IMAGE: Kunal Nayyar in Christmas Karma.

Christmas Karma isn’t getting the identical love Gurinder Chaddha’s earlier movies Bend It Like Beckham and Bride And Prejudice received.

The comedy-drama musical, which launched on November 14 within the US, has received critiques calling it ‘Yuletide nausea-inducing’ (The Guardian) and ‘the worst since Cats (The Each day Telegraph).

Starring Kunal Nayyar (The Huge Bang Concept), Christmas Karma is a gift day tackle Charles Dickens’ basic A Christmas Carol, with its three ghosts performed by Eva Longoria, Billy Porter and Boy George.

IMAGE: Orry with Kunal Nayyar and Gurinder Chaddha. {Photograph}: Sort courtesy Orry aka Orhan Awatramani/Instagram

It’ll additionally see the worldwide debut of Orry, who claims the leap from Bollywood to Hollywood is ‘one of many hardest issues’ he is executed.

Chaddha makes the story her personal by including a backstory for Nayyar’s Eshaan Sood, who has a traumatic historical past of immigrating to the UK as a baby.

IMAGE: Eva Longoria, Billy Porter and Boy George in Christmas Karma.

The movie might but have hope nonetheless, with Empire Journal predicting, ‘It goals solely to be a crowd-pleaser, and will but develop into one.’

Its India launch is slated for December 12.

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