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Bride & Prejudice (2004)
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Jane Austen's classic story is transposed to India and given a Bollywood makeover here by director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It like Beckham). Aishwarya Rai (one of India's brightest stars, making her English-language debut) takes the Elizabeth Bennet role as Lalita, one of four eligible daughters from a good family. Lalita meets handsome but haughty American Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) at a wedding, and soon the sparks are flying and saris whirling for full on, cast-of-hundreds musical numbers. The script nimbly pulls off the location and time shift of Austen's tale, and Chadha is ably aided and abetted by Bollywood's top choreographers and technicians, who pull out all the stops for the big set pieces. However, the chemistry between the two leads is somewhat lacking and the gaps between the singing occasionally fall flat. LF
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Running time
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106min
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Country of origin
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UK / Ger
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Genre
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Romantic Comedy
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, from the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Theatrical distributor
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Pathé
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UK cinema certificate
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12A
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UK cinema release date
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October 2004
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