LOS ANGELES: When writing her first script for the film "What's Love Got To Do With It," which opened this week's Red Sea International Film Festival, writer-director Jemima Khan said she intended to address "preconceptions that a lot of people in the West have about arranged weddings."

After marrying her ex-husband Imran Khan, a Pakistani politician and cricketer, Khan spent ten years living there. "I had intended to make a film that showed Pakistan in a more colourful, hospitable, and good light than perhaps we normally see in our screens in the West," she remarked.

When I lived in Lahore, friends of mine often lamented the fact that only films that are critical of their nation win accolades in the West.

Khan noted that her prejudices about the idea of arranged marriages changed when she spent time in Pakistan, where she was speaking at Deadline's Red Sea Studios alongside the movie's actresses Shabana Azmi and Sajal Aly.
I witnessed several very happy arranged weddings, reports Deadline.

That's not to suggest there isn't a significant difference between a forced marriage and the unpleasant examples, but I'm talking about the majority, which are done consensually and are thus frequently joyful, she continued.

In "What's Love Got To Do With It," Lily James plays a documentary filmmaker and compulsive user of dating apps whose perception of the possibility of an arranged marriage is soon altered when she learns that her childhood friend Kaz (Shazad Latif) is heading to Lahore to wed a stranger chosen by his parents.

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