Bride & Prejudice (2004)

Do you think love can be found outside your race ? This question can depends on individuals, and in the movie Bride and Prejudice which is considers a Bollywood's movie but has some Hollywood themes in it. The film starts with Lalita and her two other sisters attending at a wedding. Balraj and his friend Darcy and Darcy's sister also attended the wedding all the way from America. In the Indian culture, it is the duty of the parents to find s good husband for their daughters and rich men are what they are aiming to get for their daughters. Balraj and and Jaya, Lalita's sister instantly fell in love. Darcy kind of have a crush on Lalita but didn't revealed his feelings until the near ending of the movie. There are some complications to Darcy and Lalita since they both are from different cultures and their ideas were very different compared to Jaya and Balraj, who have no problems since they both are Indian , it was easier to handle things. I didn't really like the film, nor I hate it , but I would I like it . But again I am not really impressed with the movie and their acting but overall, it's okay. I understand what the director was trying to do and his goals, to show the two different cultures and how sometimes how you view one particular culture is not true on most of the case. For example how Darcy thought arranged marriages were all so bad but we can disapprove clearly in the example of Lalita's parents, they seem to work out well. What I didn't really was how it was kind of too fictional , for two people to fall in love so quick and from one step to quickly jump to 100 step, such as marriage . Bride and prejudice can clearly be seen as a crossover film than the other traditional Bollywood films. First of all, the film is in English which already removes it from the category of traditional Bollywood film. Also this film takes place from different countries, not just India but also in London and USA compared to the other Bollywood movies, which is usually in India. Also various actions in this show that it is a crossover film when most of their songs are in English instead of a Hindi. Also when Darcy was looking for Lalita, Kholib offered him to get inside and have some beer, which is total opposite from what traditional Bollywood films would do. What I have learned about the cultural elements presented in the film is the difference between Indian and Western culture on the topic of love. In the West it's all about the love while in the Indian culture, that not the case for everyone. The director did a good job in showing this part when Lalita and Darcy were having casual conversations. When Darcy make a joke about the arranged marriage, Lalita got very upset and said that that was not the case and that people are very happy and she question why is the reasons why Americans has the highest percent of divorce rate in the world, if it all about the love ? The scene leaves with Lalita saying this and leaving and Darcy was speechless and it is exactly what the movie director has intended to do. I've also learned that is the the parents duty to find spouses for their kids, they belived it much better since they would what best for their kids and highly honor to marry someone who is rich, respectful and educated. And also this idea kind of also blends in the West even though it is technically called arranged marriages, the parents kind of give suggestion to their kids to marry who. For example when Whickman was telling Lalita how Darcy 's mother tried let her son marry a new yorkan girl, and it is very similar to arranged marriage in India but not extreme. The idea is still there.

What did I just watch? The movie mainly had to do with a rich American man named William Darcy and a Indian girl named Lalita. The movie started in India where William and his friend were attending a wedding. This is where they first meet, and the first encounter wasn't very good.Following this Lalita didn't have a view of William until the end of the movie. The rest of the movie had to do with their love journey and how the will fall in love. This was one of the least favorite movies I have ever seen. I am a newbie when it comes to watching Bollywood movies. But if they're all like this I think I will stick to Hollywood movies. I thought the acting was OK but most of the scene were just cringe worthy.Also the one actor who sounded like a donkey was not entertaining, he was just very annoying and I wish they realizes how annoying that actually was. The plot was OK but very predictable the two people who don't like each other end up falling in love. Very original. I never want to hear another Bollywood song ever again. All the songs beside my lips are waiting were just awful. No Life without Wife made me want to be deaf. I was like listening to Rebeca black's Friday, that's how bad it was. Also it didn't look like they were trying to lip sync it was very obvious they were not singing. Also they had so many pointless songs that we could have gone without. The dances were pretty cool, I liked them for the most part except the snake dance. That made me want to hit my forehead with my palm. But the opening dance was the best part of the entire movie. It had a good start just to crash land. If only the movie was ten minutes long. The sets were pretty cool they one of the only bright spots in a horrible movie.The costumes look very authentic to what you would see in a Bollywood film. I would call this movie more Bollywood because American movies don't have horrendous songs every ten minutes that are really pointless. And the story line was so predictable, in a American movie there would have been a plot twist.What Cultural elements i learned about Indian parents are they gold diggers who just are looking out for them and don't care about what there kids think. Just about how much money the husband has. Also how bad it must feel to be in the kids situation being forced to marry someone that they barely met and know almost nothing about them. Another thing I learned was how uncommon it is for Indian to marry someone of a different ethnicity. They want their grandchildren to be traditional Indians. Also I learned that if you are younger you can't marry until the eldest has married. So if they don't' want to get married you are out of luck. Overall I learned a lot about Indian culture but It was such a bad movie.

Creating a modern-day Bollywood version of "Pride and Prejudice" was a novel idea and was always going to be a challenging enterprise and director Gurinda Chandha deserves great credit for attempting to try to do so. What she produces is a worthwhile product with some great flaws The movie is to be credited for seeking to introduce western audiences to Bollywood entertainment and I like that that the film incorporates most of the traditional aspects of Bollywood productions -singing, dancing, guest appearances unrelated to the movie's plot and so on. It also provides us with an interesting and colorful, if I suspect somewhat superficial, overview of some aspects of Indian lifestyle and culture. The singing and dancing is well choreographed and fun even if the lyrics appeared slightly clichéd. I have a feeling Chandha was having a good-natured dig at Bollywood tradition at some parts The plot flows nicely with most of the similarities to the Jane Austen novel plainly evident.The casting was mostly good. Most of the Bakshi family closely matched their equivalents in the Bennett family and gave excellent performances in their respective roles. Martin Henderson was good as Will Darcy, Naveen Andrews was great as Balraj and the very talented Indira Varma was great as Kiran, the equivalent to Caroline Bingley. Daniel Gillies was good -if slightly forgettable as Johnny Wickham and Nitin Ganatra was hilarious as the irrepressible Mr Kohli.I could think of no better actress to play the Lady Catherine De Bourgh-like character Catherine Darcy than the very talented Marsha Mason.The one disappointment (other than what I'm going to get to in the next paragraph) was Alexis Bledel as Georgiana Darcy. Georgiana Darcy is one of my favorite characters in "Pride and Prejudice" but this version of Georgiana Darcy comes across as flat and unlikeable But what really spoiled the movie for me was Aishwarya Rai in the main role of Lalita Bakshi, although in all fairness she was given some very sloppy character development and dialogue to work with by Chandha. She's such an irritating, annoying actress and her performance -at least in this movie -was horrible and her being the main character definitely destroyed the charm of this movie was for me. Rai has been quoted in interviews as saying that she didn't read "Pride and Prejudice" before appearing in this movie. Well, perhaps she should have. Lizzie Bennett is definitely opinionated and headstrong but she's also a very sympathetic character and the reader can passionately identify with where she's coming from. Even when we see the flaws in Lizzie's character, they are still portrayed in a sympathetic way in relation to her overall personality. Rai and Chandha make Lalita's character arrogant, rude and pretentious to the point where I was cheering on Darcy when he was being obnoxious to her. That shouldn't be how it is in a "Pride and Prejudice" adaptation Perhaps this is a reflection of the overall script and character development in this movie, though. Many of the characters could have done with more depth, dimension and substance and there was a huge potential for greater fulfillment of the premise of this movie.The dialogue also fell flat at certain parts.I think this movie has an interesting premise and the casting, the insights into some aspects of Indian life and the singing and dancing make this worthwhile viewing. However, the sloppy script, dialogue, character development and the casting of Aishwarya Rai in the role of Lalita detract from what otherwise could have been a great movie

No need to tell what the story about, but one who didn't know yet, it's the story of love of two persons. The one person has prejudice towards the other. And the other supposedly has a lot of pride. With some other problem of another characters intertwined the story of these two persons and beautiful view scenery and a lot of music.It's fun to see how the film fits to the real story of Pride and Prejudice, especially how it converts to modern film or how it converts to Indian culture. Each four actors which play as the daughters fit as they character portrait, the kind, smart, naughty, and nerd. The cobra dance performance by the nerd daughter is hilarious and entertaining while still has some little choreography art. The only name still the same from P&P is only Mr. Darcy. I especially like the scene of dance performances which used two sticks. The only thing annoys me is how it shows the dances early in the film, which I had almost fast forward because it made me bored. It would be better to prepare the film with story first then one could enjoy the dances more. Although it lacks the complexity of P&P it stills enjoyable and it's a good introduction for one that haven't read the book.