Bride and Prejudice | Naveen Andrews, Ashanti (II) | Good clean romance for the whole family

Bride and Prejudice | Naveen Andrews, Ashanti (II) | Great Remake

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Bride and Prejudice

	Bride and Prejudice Naveen Andrews, Ashanti (II) Miramax Home Entertainment, 2005 average customer review:based on 244 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good clean romance for the whole family

I love this version of Jane Austin's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
What a great twist to the classic story retold in contemporary time, in another country, with the same sweet moral of Jane Austin's work.
They kept most of the original characters and their names or a slight deviation of their names.
The music was fun and lively, and adapted to the India culture, and the changes were not offensive, although some may object to some innuendos depending on your audience's age. Like the silly scene of "no wife, no life" for Mr. Colins.

On the other hand I did not like Bend It Like Beckham'. I thought this was a much better film displaying a whole lot more talent.

Great job Bollywood!

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Great Remake

I've seen this movie about a zillion times and I can still see it again. It is a musical-style verzion of Pride and Prejudice. It you don't understand the original, watch this and you understand it completely. FYI...Martin Henderson is HOT!

Hooray for Bollywood!

This has become my kids' favorite movie! My sister is a huge Jane Austen fan and introduced me to this movie. After watching a borrowed version, we purchased our own and my kids watch it all the time. The images are so colorful and engaging. The dancing and music are captivating. The story is, of course, a classic. My children are 10 (boy), 8 and 5 (two girls) and we all enjoy it, including me! It's kind of nice to have a good wholesome movie that's not just another earnest/humorous piece of animation to share as a family.

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This movie is a Hoot!

If you enjoy Jane Austen flicks, get ready to roll with laughter at this spoof of Pride and Prejudice. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Light hearted and good clean fun.

Worhty for the fun of it

Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Directed: Gubiader Chadha
With: Aishwarya Rai: Lalita Bakshi
Martin Henderson: William Darcy

If you think Jane Austen has taken off again--after the outburst of the 90s (and 200s--you're right. Just in the span of two years we have the resurgent "Pride and Prejudice" shown in theaters now (November-December, 2005) with Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, and just the year before an INDIAN simulacrum appeared called, "Bride and Prejudice"--after all you can't repeat the same title forever--and it is somewhat resembles Bridget Jones's Diary made a few years back in England (with a sequel to boot). This one (B&P) is a joy to behold, with attractive leads (meaning the women), enticing music--a mixture of Indian strains with western rock--dancing numbers galore, and lively pace. It offers nearly two hours of joyous watching, though little beyond that. The acting is minimal (not that it needs to be anything more), the plot situations--and even some of the dialogue--mere copies of the original story, and the silly situations in the Austen story are no longer pointed satirical shafts but low-level farce played for laughs--as the scenes equivalent to the Mr. Collins incidents indicate. An Indian family, the Bakhsis, with four unmarried daughters and no prospects of good matches in sight needs a meddling mother to nudge things along--and so it happens here. When a prospective groom, Mr. Balraj, arrives from England, he falls in love with Maya, the second oldest. But the scheme is frustrated by a friend of his, a proud American called Will Darcy (Martin Henderson), whose family owns hotels back in L.A., and who is here to transform India into a resort country. He has a stumbling himself, though, as he meets the eldest daughter, the ravishing Lalita (Aishwarya Rai), who stumps him with clever answers--too much for the condescending American. There is also a Mr. Wickham in the story, the usual heel in the Austen stories, who is after Lalita first, sees his prospects there diminishing, and falls for the youngest sister, whom he woos and nearly runs away with. He slanders Darcy of course, and his connivances are not revealed to Lalita until nearly the end, when Darcy proposes to her and she rejects him--on the same grounds Elizabeth rejects Darcy.
This all works up to a point as a story--for the same plot is now being repeated and copied ad infinitum--and the results are relative flabbiness. But there are compensations; the music, the dancing--this is almost a musical--the exotic beauty of Rai, and the sheer energy of this movie carry it along. Find a better Darcy though--or better yet, run a contest of Darcy look-a-likes in L.A. Or ask MacFadyen or Colin Firth to lend a hand to this totering image of a wooer. Or, simply, don't take this Indian gem too seriously but take what for it offers. A light-hearted love story, with its music in it, and the cultural caricatures of at least three cultures--American, English, Indian, or Anglo-Indian and Indian-
American, as the case may be. The movie, cleverly conceived, deftly avoids offending anyone, though it makes fun of everybody. And the play of words--Lalita is not Lolita, as Anne, one of Darcy's girl friends supposes hearing her name. You need the correct pronunciations here. And a movie of this sort, with that name in it, does not have to be morose, as Kubrick conceived his; rather, it allows itself to indulge into the Jane Austen treasure box once more, for our culture--riddled by terrorism, hatred, racism, and all the other evils we have invented or suffered--and needs a breath of fresh air. Two hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, some authors knew how to mock the world they lived in and make you love it at the same time. Perhaps, a movie like this makes us wonder if we need to awaken from the horrors we have seen in the last century--and still see--and approach life as a positive thing--love, romance (at any age), dance (at any age), music, and fluffy stuff that painlessly explodes hypocrisy without entirely destroying the hypocrites--their punishment being our laughter. Mix cultures, play more music, let beauties conquer the arrogant, and let the silly being laughed at. But even the silly, in the end, may conceal good hearts. After all, Mr. Collins married Charlotte Lucas. She may have made a human being out of him. And, above all, don't forget to bring Catherine De Bough back--and this movie does in the person of S.M.--for these are the characters that spark laughter, and, ironically, bring the lovers to their liberating union. Lalita may have polluted the shades of Beverly Hills, but we know better. For it is the temperament of the unloved and the spoiled that she has brought down, spoiling their fun, but enhancing ours. Long live Lalitas; and keep the spelling right.

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