Gurinder Chadha's 'It's a Wonderful Afterlife' is a recipe for a killer comedy

They're calling Gurinder Chadha's "It's A Wonderful Afterlife" a cross between "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Shaun of the Dead," and the film's synopsis we found at MoiFightClub.com explains why. 

"I think "It's A Wonderful Afterlife" is my best work to date," Chadha told IANS in this Hindustan Times article. "[It's] a film that in many ways takes me back to my warm intimate family values of 'Bend It Like Beckham,'" she says.

Family values, that is, that include a murdering mother and skewered ghosts.

The cast includes Sally Hawkins, Goldy Notay and Sendhil Ramamurthy but it's the lead actor Shabana Azmi who has been receiving the most attention. "She put on so much weight she was unrecognizable on the streets of London. Often ladies would come up to her and ask, 'But aren't you Shabana Azmi?' I took her to a Punjabi baby shower to meet all these women, so she'd get a hang of her Punjabi-Londoner character. Shabana is dead-on in the film," Chadha said.

Chadha's "It's A Wonderful Afterlife" will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, January 21 2010.