Star-studded ‘New York, I Love You’ has India connection

Golden Globe nominated Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”) and BAFTA nominated Mira Nair (“Monsoon Wedding”) are directing “New York, I Love You” along with nine others, including Oscar nominated Natalie Portman (“Star Wars”).
The film marks the directorial debut of Portman.
Suketu Mehta (“Maximum City”) is one of the writers along with Golden Globe nominated Scarlett Johansson (“Lost in Translation”), Portman, and 18 others.
Filmfare Award winner Irrfan Khan (“Slumdog Millionaire”) plays Mansukhbhai, while Gurdeep Singh (“Love Comes Lately”) is Badal, Vedant Gokhale (“Body of Lies”) plays a cab driver, and Himad Beg (“The Accidental Husband”) and Tanzeel Kayani (“Anger Management”) both play Indian men. Divya Pathak (“The King’s Daughter”) is an editorial intern.
Besides Kapur, Nair, and Portman, other directors include Fatih Akin (“Auf der anderen Seite”), Brett Ratner (“Red Dragon”), and Randall Balsmeyer (“Between the Lions”).
Being released in USA on October 16, this 110 minutes Rated R romance film, a diverse tale of love, is a
collective work of eleven short unrelated films of about ten minutes each shot in five boroughs of New York
City in 36 days, bound together in a common motif of finding love. The tagline of the film is “Every Moment…Love Begins.”