AMERICAN PRIDE FILMS GROUP BRINGS BOLLYWOOD TO HOLLYWOOD WITH “AMERICANIZING SHELLEY”

LOS ANGELES – Newly formed independent production company American Pride Films Group is set to start filming a hilarious romantic feature film Bollywood style. Done before? Yes. Done the “Americanizing Shelly” way? Never.

Following in the highly successful footsteps of such India influenced films as “Bend It Like Beckham,” “Bride & Prejudice” and “Monsoon Wedding,” “Americanizing Shelley” marks the first Bollywood-themed feature film to be truly born and bred in Hollywood.

Successfully blending the old and the new with the east and the west. in a “Pygmalion”- like contemporary romantic comedy, “Americanizing Shelley” takes place in Los Angeles and tells the story of a wanna-be Hollywood talent manager, who sets out to Americanize an Indian girl straight from the Himalayas. As he creatively teaches her all about the American way of life and what it takes be a Hollywood celebrity, he untimely ends up learning a thing or two about his own life. Their clash in cultures soon gives way to understanding, unity and love as they begin to see the world through each others eyes.

The film will also boast an elaborate Bollywood wedding scene as well as a traditional Indian inauguration ceremony conducted by a Hindu priest.

Topping the internationally recognized cast are Beau Bridges (“10.5: Apocalypse,” “Into the West,” “The Agency”), Namrata Singh Gujrai (“The Agency,” “Passions”), Phillip Rhys (“Fathers and Sons,” “24”), Shaheen Khan (“Bend It Like Beckham”), Wil Wheaton (“Star Trek”), Erin Hershey (“The Bold”), Brad Raider (“Greener Mountains”), and African American talent Ron Reaco Lee who was most recently seen in the Bernie Mac/Ashton Kutcher comedy “Guess Who.” Lorraine Senna (“The Sopranos”) is set to direct the film which will be shot in Los Angeles and India. Pooja Gujral will serve as the film’s Bollywood Unit Director. Naomi Cooper serves as producer on the film with Joe Cooper and Natasha Gill executive producing.

About American Pride Films Group
Formed by company CEO Lt. Commander Joe Cooper (USNR) and President Namrata Singh Gujral, American Pride Films Group was established to produce family-friendly films that reflect a positive portrayal of the average American. The privately-funded company is committed to generating stories that boast a healthy, non-partisan view of the American spirit.