Gurinder Chadha’s adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a musical that takes place in London and Uganda, and has a British-Indian twist. The film features a mixed-race cast with Asian, White, Latin and Black people representing different classes of the British society.

The story is similar to that of the all-time revered classic, only the backgrounds of the characters and setting differ. A money-lender, Mr Eshaan Sood (‘Big Bang Theory’ star Kunal Nayyar), an Asian variant of Scrooge, embittered by the travails in early life (expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin and living a life of poverty initially), has turned into a loaded, penny-pinching meanie. Timely visits from his dead partner Marley’s ghost (Hugh Bonneville) and the spirits of Christmas past, present

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