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Bride & Prejudice

Well, I have to say that this completely lived up to my expectations and I found it to be freaking delightful.

So, here’s the Bollywoodish spin on Jane Austen’s classic:

The Bennets become the Bakshis, and in the process, Kitty is left out, so there are four daughters, an elimination I was perfectly fine with for a 111 minute movie.

But, of course some things never change.  Mrs. Bakshi is eager to marry off all of her daughters.

Balraj (played by Naveen Andrews of Lost fame) and his sister Kiran (formerly Charles and Caroline Bingley) are visiting their native India from England for a wedding, along with William Darcy, their American friend.  Wickham enters the scene as an adventurous English backpacker making his way through the subcontinent, and I appreciated the modern update that he had previously gotten Georgia Darcy pregnant.

And overall, the plot is then very much the same, with liberties taken here and there and singing and dancing thrown in the mix.

By far the best Bollywood spin was when Maya (formerly Mary Bennet) did a rather uncharming snake dance, rather than just botch the piano forté.

Overall, it was a fun but included more serious themes such as the way Westerners–including those who are ethnically Indian–feel about India and vice versa.

And did I mention the singing and dancing?
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