Uzma Jalaluddin is the author of AYESHA AT LAST, a revamped Pride and Prejudice set in a close-knit Toronto Muslim community.
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Amazon Studios and Kaling International are developing Uzma Jalaluddin’s novel “Hana Khan Carries On” as a film.
The story puts a modern Muslim spin on a premise first made famous by the Ernst Lubitsch classic “The Shop Around the Corner,” which was later updated with Nora Ephron’s “You’ve Got Mail.”
The novel follows two competing Halal shops. Hana’s family owns a restaurant called Three Sisters in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, and its business is threatened when a more commercial, fusion-based eatery moves in down the street. The catch is that Hana and the owner of the other restaurant, Aydin, have an instant romantic connection.
Sahar Jahani will write the script, while Mindy Kaling and Jessica Kumai Scott will produce via Kaling International.
HANA KHAN CARRIES ON has been chosen for the Cityline Book Club!
Uzma Jalaluddin’s novel Hana Khan Carries On is a modern day meet-cute inspired by a love of rom-coms.
I write romance novels.
That’s not what I set out to do when I first put fingers to keyboard. I wasn’t thinking about genre at all. All I knew was that I wanted to write funny, joyful books about characters I had rarely seen represented on the page; characters who looked like me, and who would bring a different perspective to the traditional love story.
I write romantic comedies so that I can see my stories represented in the world.
“Hana Khan Carries On,” my second novel, just coming out, is a romantic comedy inspired by the 1995 movie “You’ve Got Mail.”