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Release Date: Feb 11, 2005
Running Time: 110 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English, Hindi, and Punjabi
Country Of Origin: India
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
starring:
Martin Henderson, Aishwarya Rai, Daniel Gillies, Naveen Andrews, Nitin Ganatra, Namrata Shirodkar, Indira Varma, Anupam Kher, Ashanti, Marsha Mason
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synopsis
The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there's a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets wealthy American Will Darcy, and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate? Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California snob. Lalita looks to Darcy like a small-town Indian beauty who knows nothing of the world. Alternately enchanted by and suspicious of one another, Lalita and Darcy nearly fall prey to assumptions, gossip and a comedy of errors--until pride is humbled and prejudice overcome so that love can triumph.
Other reviews
An interesting experiment in blending Hollywood and Bollywood styles, this Indian update on Pride and Prejudice is mostly fun, if you don't mind people constantly breaking into song. Story Lalita Bakshi (Aishwarya Rai) is the eldest of four unwed daughters who live in a small town in India where their frustrated parents desperately try to land them all husbands. Enter Will Darcy (Martin Henderson), an arrogant New Yorker visiting with his rich English friend Balraj Bingley (Naveen Andrews).
PETER TRAVERS -
January 27, 2005
Hollywood meets Bollywood in this lightweight but utterly beguiling attempt -- by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha -- to take Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice for a musical whirl in the here and now. Here being Amritsar, India, where Mr. Bakshi (Anupam Kher) and his ambitious wife (Nadira Babbar) are eager to marry off their four daughters. But first, take a look at the photo above of Aishwarya Rai, who stars as Lalita, the eldest daughter. Rai, a former Miss World and
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Director
William Darcy
Lalita Bakshi
Johnny Wickham
Balraj
Mr. Kholi
Jaya Bakshi
Kiran Bingley
Mr. Bakshi
Herself
Darcy's Mother
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