Can love triumph over pride and prejudice?
You get to realise how really someone was pissed off when, in a review of Gurinder Chadha’s movie <i>Bride and Prejudice,</i> he writes that she
Film: Bride and Prejudice
Stars: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Screenplay: Paul Mayeda Berges, based on the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Running time: 112 mins.
Rating: PG-13 for sexual references
Showing at: cineplex, Garden City, Cine 2
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
You get to realise how really someone was pissed off when, in a review of Gurinder Chadha’s movie Bride and Prejudice, he writes that she “...wants to have her chapatti and eat it too.â€
Stereotype? Racism? Whatever it was, you knew that nobody was going to give this tongue-in-cheek adaptation of one of England’s most famous novel its due.
As someone put it, Austen’s England is a small country where people used to take long journeys by coach, and making a good marriage was almost as important as life.
Translate that into today’s global village, only bound by the endless celebration of life by India’s Punjabi worldwide diaspora and what you have is a kind of explosion when Bollywood meets Hollywood.
The main action takes place in Amritsar, Punjab, the hometown of Jaya Bakshi (Namrata Shorodkar) and his very vulgar wife (Nadira Babbar). The two have four beautiful daughters to marry off.
However, the smart and headstrong Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares.
Then Lalita meets the wealthy American Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate?
Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California snob. Lalita looks to Darcy like a small-town Indian beauty, who knows nothing of the world.
Alternately enchanted by and suspicious of one another, Lalita and Darcy nearly fall prey to assumptions, gossip and a comedy of errors... until pride is humbled and prejudice overcome so that love can triumph. Or does it?
Stars: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Screenplay: Paul Mayeda Berges, based on the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Running time: 112 mins.
Rating: PG-13 for sexual references
Showing at: cineplex, Garden City, Cine 2
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
You get to realise how really someone was pissed off when, in a review of Gurinder Chadha’s movie Bride and Prejudice, he writes that she “...wants to have her chapatti and eat it too.â€
Stereotype? Racism? Whatever it was, you knew that nobody was going to give this tongue-in-cheek adaptation of one of England’s most famous novel its due.
As someone put it, Austen’s England is a small country where people used to take long journeys by coach, and making a good marriage was almost as important as life.
Translate that into today’s global village, only bound by the endless celebration of life by India’s Punjabi worldwide diaspora and what you have is a kind of explosion when Bollywood meets Hollywood.
The main action takes place in Amritsar, Punjab, the hometown of Jaya Bakshi (Namrata Shorodkar) and his very vulgar wife (Nadira Babbar). The two have four beautiful daughters to marry off.
However, the smart and headstrong Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares.
Then Lalita meets the wealthy American Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate?
Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California snob. Lalita looks to Darcy like a small-town Indian beauty, who knows nothing of the world.
Alternately enchanted by and suspicious of one another, Lalita and Darcy nearly fall prey to assumptions, gossip and a comedy of errors... until pride is humbled and prejudice overcome so that love can triumph. Or does it?