The screenplay centres on an Indian mother whose obsession with marrying off her daughter leads her into the realm of serial murder.

Chadha also co-produced the film, and co-wrote the screenplay with her husband and producing partner, Paul Mayeda Berges.

The lead role is played by newcomer Goldy Notay, joining Shabana Azmi, Shaheen Khan, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Sally Hawkins in the cast.

The spirits realise that helping Roopi find a suitable husband before the police catch Mrs Sethi is in their best interests, and everyone begins to work together.

Much like the prom scene at the end of Carrie.”[4] Working with long-time collaborator and screenwriter Berges, Chadha spent two and half years writing the script.

“I started seeing this crazy film, set in Ealing, in the world of Bend It Like Beckham and yet in a completely different genre,” continues Chadha.

It includes songs by popular British-Asian and Bhangra artists such as Panjabi MC and Taz of Stereo Nation.

In a nod to the film's title, "Wonderful Life" by the British band Black features in its original form on the soundtrack.

The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews, with The Scotsman calling it an "exceptionally lazy effort, which, like the similarly weak Bride and Prejudice, is more of a pun in search of a story than an actual fully-fledged idea".

[8] The Radio Times suggested, "The gags are brash, the plot is messy and there's an element of mild horror (culminating in a send-up of Carrie) that feels totally random.