Lead pair of Yash Raj Movies’ ‘Come Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical’ search blessings at Gurudwara forward of UK premiere – Firstpost

As anticipation builds for the UK premiere of Come Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical, the lead stars of the manufacturing—Jena Pandya and Ashley Day—marked the start of their journey with a go to to Southall Gurdwaraon the auspicious competition of Baisakhi. The duo, who play Simran and Rog respectively, sought divine blessings forward of the present’s debut, symbolising a second of cultural concord and religious grounding initially of this East-meets-West love story.

Directed by filmmaker Aditya Chopra and produced by Yash Raj Movies, Come Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical is a grand new English-language musical primarily based on Chopra’s iconic 1995 Bollywood movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ)—one of the crucial profitable and longest-running titles in Indian cinema historical past. Reimagined for world audiences, the musical blends the center of Bollywood with the spectacle of Broadway and can open on the Manchester Opera Home from 29 Might to 21 June 2025, with its press evening on Wednesday 4 June.

Set throughout the UK and India, the present brings to life a cross-cultural romance by way of 18 model new English songs composed by famend Indian duo Vishal Dadlani & Sheykhar Ravjiani, with E-book and Lyrics by Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde, Imply Women) and choreography by Rob Ashford (Tony, Olivier and Emmy Award winner whose credit embrace Frozen, Cat on a Sizzling Tin Roof, Easy methods to Reach Enterprise With out Actually Making an attempt on Broadway), Co-Choreography – Indian Dances by Shruti Service provider (Girls vs. Ricky Bahl, Taj Specific).

Becoming a member of the beforehand introduced Jena Pandya (Bhangra Nation, Mamma Mia) as Simran and Ashley Day (An American in Paris, Dynasty) as Rog are Irvine Iqbal (The Father and the Murderer) as Baldev, Kara Lane (The Addams Household) as Minky, Harveen Mann-Neary (Bend It Like Beckham) as Lajjo, Amonik Melaco (Austenland) as Ben, Millie O’Connell (SIX) as Cookie, Ankur Sabharwal (Snakes and Ladders) as Ajit, Kinshuk Sen (Come Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical) as Kuljit, Russell Wilcox (Exit The King) as Rog Sr.