The function adaptation of Hana Khan Carries On from Amazon MGM Studios and Kaling Worldwide has discovered its director.
Fawzia Mirza, whose latest credit embody the Hulu sequence Deli Boys, is about to direct the movie that’s at present in improvement, The Hollywood Reporter has realized completely. The undertaking has not but introduced a solid.
Sahar Jahani (Ramy) penned the script that’s based mostly on writer Uzma Jalaluddin’s 2021 novel of the identical identify. The movie facilities on Chicago-based chef and household restaurant proprietor Hana, who connects with Aydin on an nameless relationship app with out realizing that his circle of relatives’s culinary empire may result in her enterprise shutting down.
Mindy Kaling and Jessica Kumai Scott produce for Kaling Worldwide.
Mirza was a director on the primary season of Hulu’s comedy sequence Deli Boys, which launched earlier this yr. Her function directorial debut The Queen of My Desires premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, with Mirza successful the Administrators Guild of Canada’s prime prize for function movie directing for the undertaking. The Queen of My Desires, which collected 5 nominations from the Canadian Display Academy Awards, hits theaters within the U.S. on Friday.
Moreover, the Obama administration awarded Mirza as a White Home Champion of Change in Asian American Storytelling in 2016.
Kaling co-created and serves as government producer for the Netflix sequence Working Level that stars Kate Hudson and has been picked up for a second season. She additionally co-created and government produced each the Netflix sequence By no means Have I Ever and HBO Max’s The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies.
Jahani received a Peabody Award for her work on the primary season of Hulu’s Emmy-nominated comedy sequence Ramy. Her different tv credit embody Life & Beth, 13 Causes Why and The Daring Sort. Jahani beforehand tailored Jalaluddin’s first novel, Ayesha At Final, for Amy Pascal and Columbia Footage, and he or she is engaged on her debut novel.
Kaling is represented by CAA, 3Arts and Ziffen Regulation. Mirza is repped by IAG, Alexander Stegmaier and Granderson Des Rochers. Jahani is repped by IAG, Tantrum and Morris Yorn.