Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Gurinder Chadha’s Bollywood-style musical, from Amritsar to Los Angeles.
A mother with four unmarried daughters and a wedding season is not only English. Set it in Amritsar and let it sing.
You want songs, dancing and color, with this story underneath.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the family, the marriage plot and the proud outsider.
Changes: the setting to modern India, with scenes in Goa, London and Los Angeles; the form to a Bollywood-style musical; and Darcy to an American.
Set in Amritsar, with scenes in Goa, London and Los Angeles; mostly in English, with some Hindi and Punjabi.
Whose story is it?
Lalita Bakshi’s, played by Aishwarya Rai, with Martin Henderson as Will Darcy.
How much time does it ask?
A feature, 111 minutes.
Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Naveen Andrews, Anupam Kher, Nadira Babbar, Daniel Gillies.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: DVD — Amazon · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More ways into Longbourn: Pride and Prejudice (1940) · Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1980) · Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995)