Filming “The Cheetah Girls: One World” for
“We love everything about India, and we’ve been immersing ourselves in the culture. I love kathi rolls — I call them Indian burritos.”
In the new TV movie, which will air in the United States in August and around the world in the fall, the girls encounter rejection from New York City music producers and finally land their big break with an offer to star in what they think is a Hollywood production but turns out to be a Bollywood movie produced in India.
Aqua (Williams), Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), and Dorinda (Sabrina Bryan) are eager to go, but everything changes when they arrive in India and discover the films’ shrewd producer only wants one Cheetah Girl to star in the movie. “Cheetah Girls: One World” is directed by Paul Hoen and also stars acclaimed actor Roshan Seth and Deepti Daryanani, a young Kolkata-born actress who starred in HBO’s “The Anatomy of Hope.”
The three Cheetah Girls, talented dancers as well as singers and actresses, have found new respect for Bollywood’s high-endurance performers, they said.
The girls have not yet met any Bollywood stars, but they hoped to, they said. “What’s his name — Shah Rukh Khan? — we see his face everywhere,” said Williams. “We are trying to get him in the film!”
The group’s target audience is “tweens,” 7-to-13-year-old girls, who are now considered one of America’s hottest demographics (the Washington Post reports that America’s tweens and their parents spend between $38 billion and $59 billion a year). The Cheetah Girls are hot stuff to this crowd — their last TV movie netted 30 million viewers, and ticket sales for their last 86-concert tour earned $86 million plus an additional $10 million in concert merchandise.
Bryan feels the movie will present a unique opportunity for these girls to understand and appreciate a culture that they know nothing about. “We’ve really been able to take the Cheetahs to a new level, with this Bollywood aspect,” she told India-West. “India is something a lot of our viewers have not experienced.”
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What says,Shah Rukh:wink:
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