新娘与偏见

This 2004 musical comedy from Bollywood gives Jane Austin’s novel a dramatic new and exotic touch. When you see the title, you know the reference, and you expect the informality and fun, which are very well presented in Bollywood style. All the twisted love stories in Austin’s original work become a single, hilarious and very much Bollywood coup de foudre.
The setting of the story is not much so different from 19th century Britain – a rather interesting or perhaps concerning fact, with parents yearning for someone socially advantaged, and daughters pursuing a Victorian free love. Yet the “Bollywoodness” of the film immediately removes all the formality, tediousness, and monotone of the Victorians.
  Knowing the film is a musical, one should perhaps be less concentrated by the capricious and appropriate appearance of dances and music, but their presence is dramatizing the film so much that perhaps they become the only thing that can last in my unfortunate memory. The colors and dances all make the film a gigantic flow of pictures. Even though one may be unsure about what exactly is going on in the flow, one can easily catch up with the plot and leave the brain relaxed and fully sucking the juices from visual nourishment.
  The Western actors give a mediocre display in the film. Martin Henderson, who plays William Darcy, lacks the ability to perform the initial aloofness, and the potential to love in him that can be found in the Darcy from Austin’s novel. Since the film, like Austin’s novel, tells the story from the heroine’s POV, it is important for Henderson to show Darcy’s world via his performance, which is way too static to show the character’s mind. I know his state of mind only because I read the novel.
  The Indian actors and actresses, however, give a rather vivid performance. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, playing Lalita, a character corresponding to Elizabeth in the original novel, gives her character the ambivalent state of mind, a remorse found in love stories, an unconscious preference, etc. Look retrospectively, one can find that she became more successful and sophisticated in her later performance, Jodhaa Akbar, for example, in which she played Jodhaa Bai, Mughal Empress. However, it does not change the fact that her performance in Bride and Prejudice is already outstanding. She has the skin color that drove the 18th century British sailors to mutiny, and blue eyes mysterious and exotic. Understandably she is found in the list of 25 hottest actresses on IMDB.
  The film is so not serious and so not tedious. It is a successful Indian rebellion against British formality, with weaponry of dances and music.

So, I'm really not sure what to say about this Bollywood version of my beloved "Pride and Prejudice". The story, the music, the colors, the visuals, the glamorous settings, two attractive main characters, everything is there. However, I am just not loving it as I should be. I'll explain in a bit.

Quick summary of the story in case you don't know:
"The main plot focuses on the relationship between wealthy workaholic Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) and Lalita Bakshi (the "Elizabeth Bennett" role, played by Aishwarya Rai), the second daughter of a middle-class Indian couple. When Darcy arrives in Lalita's hometown of Amritsar, it's contempt at first sight, but as these two mismatched individuals get to know one another, love blooms. There are plenty of complications, not the least of which are Lalita's pride and Darcy's prejudice."

The film is enjoyable, light-hearted, funny at times, bright and colorful. However, some scenes are too obnoxious and loud, the relationship between Darcy and Lalita was developed too quickly, Darcy is way too pretty and not enough darkness in him, the lip-synching during musical numbers are hard to watch, and the whole idea that everybody (except Darcy) in the story are Indians is just a bit hard to grasp. It's difficult for me to accept a different approach to a story that I know so well, especially when the "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries(with Colin Firth) is still so deeply-rooted in my mind.

Also, please be warned, watching Sayid from "Lost" gettin' jiggy wit' it was an extremely painful experience.

After watching this, I think I'm anticipating the more traditional "Pride and Prejudice" remake that's due out end of this year more than ever now.

http://wintervalley.blogspot.com/2005/11/bride-and-prejudice.html

    我是在中央6看到的这部片子，因为当时没有看完全，就又从网上下了，看的很过瘾呢！以前就很喜欢印度的歌舞片，觉得有活力、热情，享受于他们的欢快和奔放。
    本片的内容并没有什么值得夸赞的地方，它是《傲慢与偏见（pride&prejudice)》的印度歌舞版。但是，不得不称赞女主角的美丽，我被她深深的吸引（还好我不是男生）。片中有几段女主角的歌舞，让我都想跟着节奏舞动起来了。而且，本片是个大团圆的结局，可以在心情不错的情况下看看。

快乐的友情，温馨的亲情，忠贞的爱情，这是一个多么美好的故事。
可是我还是有一些疑点，别说我较真，我只是无聊：
1、lahki到底是不是私奔？我看只是跟William出去游玩而已，lahki对爱情充满渴望，但是她更爱她的家人，更愿意和家人在一起。
2、william离开之后，为什么lalita没有查到他的邮件，但是lahki却收到了？
3、darcy是怎样拒绝anne和母亲，去找lalita的？或者根本没解决这个矛盾？
4、darcy劝balraj放弃对jaya 的感情，balraj就断了跟jaya 的联系，乖乖跟父母去相亲了？
5、 chandra嫁人的理由让人无法反驳，但是归根结底，她的拜金思想已经在前面剧情透露出来了，后来的理由是不是对拜金的掩饰？

05年误入的，当时也算是新片，完全是被这名字吸引的，但完全没想到居然是印度版的傲慢与偏见。女主名字不再是伊丽莎白，男主却仍然是达西。所以，达西先生还真是男神，集各式意淫于一身。

非常印度风情，非常宝莱坞，观感嘛，看你如何去看待。我个人来说，因为角色名字和人物情节，完全无法脱离傲慢与偏见的预设，于是看的时候全程都充满了一种尴尬感。

男二（原型宾利先生）的那位，回印度参加朋友的婚礼，然后他就突然冲入人群热情洋溢的跳起来了跳起来了跳起来了，oh no，当时我那个别扭的感觉：他是宾利，不，他不是，他就是，他怎么可能是……好难受……

后面，女士们逛着街呢，就突然唱起来，而且又跳起来了跳起来了！！！


出于漂亮的印度女主，英俊且美式的男主，以及百看不厌的傲慢与偏见故事原型，给三星。其实想给二星或者二星半。拍点儿自己的故事不好嘛。

因为喜欢阿什瓦亚，所以满怀期待，结果却满是失望。
美式风格的印度片或是印度风格的美国片，-_!!!!!
除了开场婚礼上的那段歌舞，似乎很难留下什么。男女主角在一起超级没感觉.....
可惜 可惜！！