Jemima Khan turns scriptwriter for UK romcom as convert to arranged marriages

 

London:  English writer and television producer Jemima Khan has turned her hand to scriptwriting for a new romcom ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ that captures her change of heart towards arranged marriages after seeing them up close during her life in Pakistan, as the ex-wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and released in the UK at the end of this month and in India early in March, charts 49-year-old Khan’s personal change of opinion to see certain merits in the seemingly unromantic consensual arrangement that brought couples together.

Over a decade in her 20s living in Pakistan, where she had her two sons Sulaiman and Kasim with Imran Khan, she saw many arranged marriages succeed and was also witness to many new ones being arranged.