The Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice meets modern day Bollywood (India) with this colourful

and exceptionally enjoyable adaptation the movie Bride and Prejudice. This has to be one of my favourite Jane Austen related movie, and if you read below you will know why! 

 

• Bride and Prejudice Cast and Characters
• Bride and Prejudice Storyline
• Bride and Prejudice filming locations
• Bride and Prejudice Statistics
• Bride and Prejudice Soundtrack

• Bride and Prejudice DVD

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Bride and Prejudice Cast and Characters

The cast and characters are displayed below with their equivalent Pride and Prejudice counterpart.

Bride and Prejudice Actor/Actress	Bride and Prejudice Character	Pride and Prejudice counterpart
Aishwarya Rai	Lalita Bakshi	Elizabeth Bennet
Martin Henderson	William Darcy (Will)	Fitzwilliam Darcy
Daniel Gillies	Johnny Wickham	Mr. Wickham
Naveen Andrews	Mr. Balraj	Mr. Bingley
Anupam Kher	Mr. Bakshi	Mr. Bennet
Nadira Babbar	Mrs. Bakshi	Mrs. Bennet
Namrata Shirodkar	Jaya Bakshi	Jane Bennet
Indira Varma	Kiran Balraj	Caroline Bingley
Sonali Kulkarni	Chandra Lamba	Charlotte Lucas
Nitin Ganatra	Mr. Kholi	Mr. Collins
Meghna Kothari	Maya Bakshi	Mary Bennet
Peeya Rai Chowdhary	Lakhi Bakshi (Lucky)	Lydia Bennet
Alexis Bledel	Georgina Darcy (Georgie)	Georgiana Darcy
Marsha Mason	Catherine Darcy	Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Harvey Virdi	Mrs. Lamba	Lady Lucas
Georgina Chapman	Anne	Anne de Bourgh

 

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Bride and Prejudice Storyline

The Bride and Prejudice storyline follows closely the same themes that Pride and Prejudice follows. The main differences is the time period is set to the present day and instead of the location being set in England, the story has a more global feel, with characters and scenes set in India, the United Kingdom and California. 

Chaman Bakshi lives in Amritsar, India, with his wife, Manorama, and four daughters Jaya (equivalent to Jane), Lalita (equivalent to Elizabeth), Maya (equivalent to Mary), and Lakhi (equivalent to Lydia). Manorama would like to get her daughters married to wealthy families so that they live comfortably. She is upset because her husband Chaman refuses to immigrate to England, when her brother wanted to sponsor them. She is pleased when she gets a proposal from the Bingley family for their son, Balraj. Balraj arrives with Caucasion friend, William Darcy, and gets to meet Jaya, and instantly likes her. 

William and Balraj go to Goa with Lolita, Jaya and Lukhe to look at a hotel. Whilst in Goa Johnny Wickham, whom Lolita likes, appears on the scene. Manorama does not approve of William and Johnny, and would prefer that Lalita marry Mr Kohli from California.

The story evolves from here true to the Pride and Prejudice formulae.  

The film is full of lively and thoroughly enjoyable music, which I loved to watch. My favourite song is the one about Mr Kohli saying “no life without wife”.

At the end Johnny Wickham is exposed as the untrustworthy person he is, Lalita falls in love with Will Darcy and marries him, Jaya and Mr Balraj marries, and Chandra Lumba marries Mr Kholi.

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Pride and Prejudice Filming Locations

The film was largely funded from the UK Film Council and one of the requirements from the film Council is that the film is mostly recorded in the United Kingdom. This meant that some of the India and United States locations were actually filmed in the United Kingdom. The filming locations are:

• Halton House, Buckinghamshire (UK) - Wedding party in Amritsar

• Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire (UK) - Exterior shots of Darcy's hotel in Beverly Hills

• Somerset House, London (UK) - Dancing through fountain

• Turville, Buckinghamshire (UK) - Wedding dream

• Ealing Studios (UK) - Interior shots

• Cobstone Windmill (UK), Buckinghamshire

• Little Venice, London (UK)

• London Eye (UK)

• National Film Theatre (UK)

• Southall, London (UK)

• Golden Temple of Amritsar (India)

• the beaches of Goa (India)

• the Grand Canyon (USA)

• the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles California (USA)

• Santa Monica Beach (USA).

 

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Bride and Prejudice Statistics

Director:                     Gurinder Chadha

Writers:                      Jane Austen (novel)
                                    Paul Mayeda Berges (writer)

Release Date:           11 February 2005 (USA)  

Duration:                   107 min / 111 min (English version) / 122 min (Hindi version)

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Bride and Prejudice Soundtrack

 

The songs from the film are available on the Bride and Prejudice Soundtrack. The songs are:

·         Arrogance, Pride & Vanity                                    Buy Bride and Prejudice                     Buy Bride and Prejudice

·         Dola Dola                                                              Soundtrack from USA                      Soundtrack from England

·         Lalitha Walks Away

·         Marriage End

·         Marriage Has Come To Town

·         My Lips Are Waiting (aka Goa Groove)

·         No Life Without Wife

·         Punjabi Wedding Song                                                                  

·         Take Me To Love (part One)

·         Take Me To Love (part Two)

·         Touch my Body

 

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