Bride and Prejudice

The Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice is updated and reset in modern day India and given the full Bollywood treatment. Directed by Gurinder Chadha.


 * All Musicals Are Adaptations: Pride and Prejudice with a Bollywood twist. What's not to like?
 * Arch Enemy: Darcy and Wickham with a modern vengeance.
 * Arranged Marriage: We see the wedding of such a couple early in the movie. Also, Catherine has hopes of arranging her son's marriage to American businesswoman Anne.
 * Beta Couple: Jaya and Balraj.
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kiran is not a nice person. Darcy's mom is also not nice.
 * Bratty Teenage Daughter: Lalita's younger sisters Maya and Lakhi.
 * But Not Too Foreign: The character based on Mr. Bingley, Balraj, grew up in England.
 * Casanova: Wickham.
 * Composite Character: The younger sisters Maya and Lakhi replace the three younger sisters of the original.
 * Likewise, Kiran Balraj here stands in for both of Bingley's sisters from the original.
 * Crowd Song: More than one, but When Marriage Comes To Town is amazing.
 * Culture Clash: Hmmm an American and a girl from India, what could possibly go wrong?
 * Daddy's Girl: Lalita and her father are the best of friends.
 * Distant Duet: Lalita and William Darcy have one that was cut from the movie.
 * Falling in Love Montage: All of that happened in one night?
 * Fate Drives Us Together
 * Foregone Conclusion: Anyone who's read or seen Pride and Prejudice probably has a pretty good guess who Lalita's going to end up with.
 * Giftedly Bad: The Cobra Dance is kind of astonishing in a not good way.
 * Grand Romantic Gesture: At the end of the film, with drums.
 * I Want Grandkids: This is the concern of the girls' mother Manorama Bakshi.
 * Karma Houdini:
 * My Name Is Not Durwood: Darcy's mother thinks that Lalita's name is Lolita.
 * Marry for Love: Lalita wishes this over an arranged marriage.
 * Relationship Sabotage: Balraj's sister Kiran doesn't really like Jaya or Lalita.
 * Darcy also does this, as per the book.
 * Setting Update: The movie takes place in India, England and California.
 * Smitten Teenage Girl: Running off with an older man may sound romantic...
 * Spontaneous Choreography: Especially When Marriage Comes To Town.