![]() The use of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” as source material for the plot is a double-edged sword here. Bride is rated PG-13 for some exotic dancing and a few crude sexual references, including one excerpt of a group of singing transvestites. “Bride and Prejudice” is director Gurinder Chadha’s ( “Bend It Like Beckham”) attempt to bring Bollywood into the mainstream, and while I doubt it will create a sudden market for the more typical, three hour long subtitled traditional Bollywood pictures, it will give the more adventurous cinematic tourist an opportunity to dip his toe into the water and see if the temperature of the genre is to his liking.Īishwarya Rai stars as Lalita Bakshi, an Indian version of Elizabeth Bennet, in a Bollywood update of the Jane Austen classic, “Pride and Prejudice”. ![]() Try to picture a cross between “ Moulin Rouge,” “General Hospital,” and “A Passage to India,” and you’ll get a rough idea of a Bollywood production. They are a wink at Bollywood, a growing genre of films from India that combine elements of the traditional Hollywood musical with soap operas, romantic comedies, and a dash of travelogue. I finally understand those singing puppets in the Fandango commercials.
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