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SCOOP!! & NEWS ‘Bride and Prejudice’: Indian curry in British cuisine08th Oct 2004 23.46 IST By Nitika Desai Swap stately corsets for saris and Punjabi salwar-kameez, replace the piano duples with bhangra beats, convert the ballroom gatherings into lavish Punjabi weddings, and you have the 19th century Jane Austen novel transmuted into a big fat Bollywood wedding – Bride and Prejudice . The decorous William Darcy of Austen’s novel becomes a suave American businessman Will Darcy (Martin Hendersen) who meets Lalita (Ash) at a wedding in Amritsar, her Indian hometown. The brief encounter leaves them with mixed feelings for each other. She thinks of him as an arrogant imperialist snob while he sees her as a coddled village girl, who knows little of the world beyond her hometown. 
But the amazing destiny of Lalita and Darcy brings them together in more flirtatious encounters (set across different locations from Britain to LA) before love sprouts and demands fulfillment. To say that the movie is a just adaptation of the novel would be an overwhelming understatement. The subtlety of the characters, the situations and the undercurrents of suppressed emotions in Austen’s masterpiece have been conveniently chucked out for the merriment and Bolly-ho in the movie. But still, ‘Bride and Prejudice’ turns out as an entertaining fare that offers Indian curry in British cuisine. But, film’s director Gurinder Chadha has deftly translated certain elements of Austen's book into her movie – for instance the clucking matchmaker mother Mrs Bakshi, played by Nadira Babbar, who has delivered an incredible performance. Aishwarya Rai cannot act in English. It is quite visible for any acute viewer to see that she does not internally identify with her English dialogues on an emotive level, but simply mouths them with proper pronunciation and intonation. This is what makes her character Lalita shallow in the film and this is also the reason for her lack of chemistry with Martin Hendersen . In a nutshell, ‘Bride and Prejudice’ is Austen’s story transmuted into an all-singing, all dancing Bollywood tale that is not without its stereotypical gloss and gaudiness. Also check out the complete film review with stills from the movie at Bride and Prejudice | CRICKET ZONE Live Cricket Coverage Song Lyrics ALSO READ scoop ~ Katrina Kaif too busy for the small screen ~ Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi promise another laugh riot ~ Rozza Catalano in the eye of a controversy ~ Sir Paul McCartney to marry girlfriend? ~ Karisma Kapoor happy to judge 'Nach Baliye' ~ Preity Zinta feels 'karmic' connection with Punjab ~ Aishwarya Rai raves about Abhishek Bachchan ~ Hello – Movie Preview and Slideshow ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Aamir Khan to be felicitated at Asian film festival ~ Shahrukh Khan's production house to adapt book to film ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Drona, Kidnap, Welcome To Sajjanpur, Saas Bahu Aur Sensex, Hulla, The Last Lear, 1920, Ru-Ba-Ru, A Wednesday, Rock On, Phoonk, Chamku, Dostana , Hello , Golmaal Returns , EMI MUSIC Drona , Kidnap celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Zeenat Aman | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Koel Purie | Shahana Goswami | Adah Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | more... POPULAR WALLPAPERS Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Salman Khan | Aishwarya Rai | Shahrukh Khan | Akshay Kumar | Kareena Kapoor | Ranbir Kapoor | Priyanka Chopra | Kajol | Mallika Sherawat | Rani Mukherjee | Hrithik Roshan | Vidya Balan | Amrita Rao | Genelia D'Souza | Sneha Ullal | Riya Sen | Preity Zinta | Bipasha Basu | Minissha Lamba | Ayesha Takia | Imran Khan | Nigar Khan | John Abraham | Sherlyn Chopra MOVIE TRAILERS & VIDEOS Drona | Kidnap | Hello | Fashion | EMI | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Raat Gayi Baat Gayi | Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai | Aashayein | Paathshaala | Dostana | Toonpur Ka Superhero | Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi | Rang Rasiya | Chal Chala Chal | Heroes | Karzz | Horn Ok Please | Golmaal Returns | Ghajini | Yuvvraaj | Kambakth Ishq | Dil Kabaddi | Billoo Barber | | 
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