Cate Blanchett's 'Indian Summer' To Proceed

IMDB News is reporting that Cate Blanchett's new film, Indian Summer, is one step closer to receiving the blessing of Indian film officials and will, therefore, resume production following a final review of the film's plot and script.  Indian Summer center's on Lady Edwina Mountbatten's alleged affair with India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.  Indian film officials feared that the film would portray the beloved Prime Minister disrespectfully and had blocked access to certain key filming locations until they fully reviewed of the project. 

Most especially, Indian government officials wanted to see how explicit the the affair between Nehru and Mountbatten, the wife of the last British viceroy of India, would be played out on screen.

A compromise was reached wherein the film's producers must market the work as fictional and any changes to the approved script must be re-approved by Indian officials.

The film is scheduled for released in 2011.

To read the full report on IMDB, click here.

Cate Blanchett has served as co-artistic director of Sydney Theatre Company with her husband, Andrew Upton since January 2008. For the Company, she has previously performed in The War of the Roses, Hedda Gabler, Sweet Phoebe, Kafka Dances, Top Girls and Oleanna and has directed The Year of Magical Thinking, Blackbird and A Kind of Alaska. She is gearing up to star in Uncle Vanya. Other theater credits include productions with the Almeida, London, Company B, and Griffin.