Americanizing Shelley

Americanizing Shelley
Americanizing Shelley
	Promotional film poster
Directed by	Lorraine Senna
Written by	Namrata Singh Gujral
Produced by	UniGlobe Entertainment
Starring	Namrata Singh Gujral ; Beau Bridges ; Wil Wheaton ; Noureen DeWulf ; RonReaco Lee ; Phillip Rhys
Cinematography	Christo Bakalov
Edited by	Troy Takaki
Music by	Jay Ferguson
Production; company	UniGlobe Entertainment
Distributed by	UniGlobe Entertainment
Release date	April 26, 2007 (Nashville);
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

Premise

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

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]