Summary
Valentine's Day is welcomed with a resounding "Yes!" by "Bride & Prejudice," the fun-loving and blithely voluptuous new romantic comedy from director Gurinder Chadha and screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges, the conjugal creative team who scored an international hit with "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002).
It's fun to imagine "Bride," a contemporary retelling - Bollywood- style - of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," forming a perpetual double bill with Mira Nair's "Monsoon Wedding." Miss Nair made the classier wedding comedy about Indian family solidarity amid matchmaking vicissitudes. Still, even the brassy, frankly commercial tendencies of Miss Chadra's English-language film prove cheerfully distinctive and diverting, especially its playful-to-gaudy song-and- dance spectacle (entrusted to a legendary choreographer who has dominated the genre, Saroj Khan).See the full content of this document
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Beautiful 'Bride' in Ethnic 'Pride'
The Austen framework proves strikingly serviceable when updated and shifted to provincial India, specifically the northwestern city of Amrits...
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