"A cross-cultural, British-and-Bollywood-meets-Hollywood take on Austen's most famous novel, the film is pure joy a riot of original musical numbers, colourful costumes, chaos, culture clashes and, of course, romance. You may think it wouldn't work, but it does. Released after the huge success of Bend It Like Beckham, Chadha spent two years filming Bride &Prejudice across three continents. It's a homage to the Bollywood films she grew up watching with a modern, western twist a cinematic expression of her hybrid identity."
"Themes of class, social expectations and (yes) prejudices are refracted through Bollywood tropes and melodrama. We leap from Amritsar to Goa, then LA and London. More than that, Austen's world fits surprisingly well into contemporary India, where arranged marriages equal security and status. These parallels make the novel an ideal fit for a 21st-century Indian retelling. The Bennets become the Bakshis a middle-class family from Amritsar with four daughters to marry off."
"Our heroine is Lalita, played by the former Miss World and Bollywood movie icon Aishwarya Rai. Like Elizabeth Bennet, she is clever, full of gumption and occasionally arrogant. Reviews were mixed, but unanimous about Rai's beauty. Branded as a stately beauty (the Guardian) and reduced to a world-class hottie (Rolling Stone), she proved to be both dazzling on screen and deft enough to bridge Bollywood spectacle and British sensibility."
Bride & Prejudice reimagines Pride and Prejudice as a vibrant cross-cultural film combining British, Bollywood and Hollywood elements. The movie features original musical numbers, colourful costumes, cultural clashes and romance, filmed across three continents after the success of Bend It Like Beckham. The production pays homage to Bollywood cinema while incorporating a western twist to convey hybrid identity. Austenian themes of class, social expectations and prejudice are refracted through Bollywood tropes and melodrama across settings from Amritsar and Goa to LA and London. The Bennet family becomes the Bakshis, and Lalita, played by Aishwarya Rai, embodies Elizabeth Bennet’s wit and independence while earning strong attention for her screen presence.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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