Bride and Prejudice - Wikipedia

• Directed by...........Gurinder Chadha
• Produced by.........Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar
• Written by.............Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha
• Starring...................Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar, Sonali Kulkarni

• Music by................................. Anu Malik
• Cinematography....................Santosh Sivan
• Editing by...............................Justin Krish
• Distributed by.......................Miramax Films
• Release date(s).....................Februay 11, 2004
• Running time(s)...................111 minutes
• Country.................................India, United Kingdom, United States
• Language...............................English, Hindi, Panjabi

Bride and Prejudice is a 2004 Indian/British/American romantic musical film. The screenplay by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges is a Bollywood-style adaption of Bride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It was filmed primary in English, with some Hindi and Panjabi dialogue.

Plot

The plot closely follows the plot of Bride and Prejudice with many elements compacted to brief refences. Some character names remain the same, while others are changed slightly, using localized names with similiar pronunciaton (such as Lalita for Lizzy) Lalita Bakshi is a daughter of a farmer in Amritsar. She has three sisters, Jaya, Maya, and Lahki. Lalita is introduced to William Darcy, An American businessman, but initially deems hin to be self-absorbed and resist his advances. Meanwhile, Darcy's friend Balraj and jaya fall in love, much to the delight of Jaya's mother (who wants her daughter to marry rich men). Kholi is unromantic, vain and disgusting however, and Lalita quickly rejects his offer. Kholi leaves the house and settles for marrying Lalita's best friend, Chandra Lamba. Lahki falls in love with Johnny Wickham, whose mother was Darcy's childhood nanny. Darcy tries to warn Lalita about Johnny, without revealing he impregnated Georgie, Darcy's younger sister, when she was sixteen-years-old, but she assumes Darcy is simply jealous of his romantic rival. Lalita, her maother and sisters go to Los Angeles to attend the wedding og Chandra to Kholi. Darcy proposes to her, but Lalita declines because Darcy discouraged his friend Balraj from having a relationship with her sister, and she leaves for India, stopping over in London. Darcy flies back to London and, with Lalita's help, rescues the younger sister. They fly back to India where Lalita and Darcy and Jaya and Balraj get married in a double wedding.

Sountrack

• Deh Shiva Bar Mohe
• Punjabi Wedding Song
• A Marriage Has Come to Town
• Dola Dola
• Take Me to Love
• No Life Without Wife
• El Tilingo Lingo
• Nagin
• Take Me to Love (Part Two) - PJ Lequerica
• Ride with Me - Nelly
• Touch My Body - Ashanti
• My Lips Are Waiting (Reprise) - Ashanti and Aishwarya Rai