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Bride & Prejudice/ Bride and Prejudice

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  Bride & Prejudice/ Bride and Prejudice Review
Tookey's Rating
6 /10
 
Average Rating
4.78 /10
 
Starring
Aishwarya Rai , Martin Henderson, Naveen Andrews
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Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
Written by: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges

 
 
 
Released: 2004
   
Genre: MUSICAL
ROMANCE
COMEDY
   
Origin: GB/ US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 0
 
 


 
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Swapping corsets for saris, and polite pianoforte for the bhangra beat, director Gurinder Chadha reinvigorates Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice with fun and flamboyance... The musical sets are lavish while sending up the Bollywood tendency for melodrama - one of the numbers, a pyjama-clad knees-up, brings to mind the Sandra Dee song from Grease (although the lyrics sometimes fall short). And while Rai and Henderson don't generate the electricity quite befitting their suppressed passion, inherent charm wins out over their characters' foibles. For the most part, Bride & Prejudice is a romantic comedy that amply delivers on its eastern promise.

(Stella Papamichael, BBCi)


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