What do you find interesting and entertaining about the film Pride and Prejudice?
..., would Jane Austen’s principles still apply. When Lalita Bakshi meets Californian high-flyer Will Darcy at a wedding in her Indian hometown of Amritsar, it's hate at first sight. She accuses him of being an imperialist snob and he brushes her off as a pampered village girl, narrow-minded to the ways of the world. Still they find themselves drawn together in a series of awkward but increasingly engaging episodes. Chadha craftily interweaves other aspects of Austen's novel, including a very comic portrayal of Lalita’s overbearing mother, keen to marry off her four daughters to nice Indians boys, just as Mrs Bennet in the novel. Meanwhile, Darcy's half-brother Wickham messes with Lalita's affections and threatens to bring dishonour upon the family, this is the similar to Lydia having to marry Wickham in Pride and Prejudice when Wickham seduces her. Then there's the hilariously over-the-top Mr Coli shopping for a wife to take back to LA, similar again to Mr Collins, who is a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, who comes to the Bennet household in search of a wife to take back with him to his parish. I also like the connections in some of the imprtiand lines; 'Any single guy with big bucks must be shopping for a bride' is Chadha's take on Austen's immortal opening There are lavish spectacular moments throughout the film, lots of colour, gorgeous settings and beautiful actresses, which all cumulate into a typical Bollywood hit. The two leads appear to have no chemistry because they never kiss or show any intimate moments, because due to Bollywood film conventions this would be inappropriate, so all they do is embrace innocently throughout the film. Also due to Bollywood film conventions and the audience they would be shown to in India, they cannot state that Georgie had had an abortion, instead they could only imply it. I thought it was very respectful of the director and storywriters to respect typical Bollywood conventions even though the audience would probably be mostly Westerners in this particular film. ...