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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Do you think love can be found outside your race ? This question can depends on individuals, and in the movie Bride and Prejudice which is considers a Bollywood's movie but has some Hollywood themes in it. The film starts with Lalita and her two other sisters attending at a wedding. Balraj and his friend Darcy and Darcy's sister also attended the wedding all the way from America. In the Indian culture, it is the duty of the parents to find s good husband for their daughters and rich men are what they are aiming to get for their daughters. Balraj and and Jaya, Lalita's sister instantly fell in love. Darcy kind of have a crush on Lalita but didn't revealed his feelings until the near ending of the movie. There are some complications to Darcy and Lalita since they both are from different cultures and their ideas were very different compared to Jaya and Balraj, who have no problems since they both are Indian , it was easier to handle things. I didn't really like the film, nor I hate it , but I would I like it . But again I am not really impressed with the movie and their acting but overall, it's okay. I understand what the director was trying to do and his goals, to show the two different cultures and how sometimes how you view one particular culture is not true on most of the case. For example how Darcy thought arranged marriages were all so bad but we can disapprove clearly in the example of Lalita's parents, they seem to work out well. What I didn't really was how it was kind of too fictional , for two people to fall in love so quick and from one step to quickly jump to 100 step, such as marriage . Bride and prejudice can clearly be seen as a crossover film than the other traditional Bollywood films. First of all, the film is in English which already removes it from the category of traditional Bollywood film. Also this film takes place from different countries, not just India but also in London and USA compared to the other Bollywood movies, which is usually in India. Also various actions in this show that it is a crossover film when most of their songs are in English instead of a Hindi. Also when Darcy was looking for Lalita, Kholib offered him to get inside and have some beer, which is total opposite from what traditional Bollywood films would do. What I have learned about the cultural elements presented in the film is the difference between Indian and Western culture on the topic of love. In the West it's all about the love while in the Indian culture, that not the case for everyone. The director did a good job in showing this part when Lalita and Darcy were having casual conversations. When Darcy make a joke about the arranged marriage, Lalita got very upset and said that that was not the case and that people are very happy and she question why is the reasons why Americans has the highest percent of divorce rate in the world, if it all about the love ? The scene leaves with Lalita saying this and leaving and Darcy was speechless and it is exactly what the movie director has intended to do. I've also learned that is the the parents duty to find spouses for their kids, they belived it much better since they would what best for their kids and highly honor to marry someone who is rich, respectful and educated. And also this idea kind of also blends in the West even though it is technically called arranged marriages, the parents kind of give suggestion to their kids to marry who. For example when Whickman was telling Lalita how Darcy 's mother tried let her son marry a new yorkan girl, and it is very similar to arranged marriage in India but not extreme. The idea is still there.

Bride and Prejudice, a roller coaster film, sparked a new fusion between two remarkably different cultures: Hollywood and Bollywood. This movie enthralled its audience by introducing a particularly unique love story among two opposites of the spectrum, a girl named Lalita Bakshi who was raised in a conservative household, and the American businessman, Will Darcy, who was always entailed in a modern lifestyle due to his upbringing. Undoubtedly, these star crossed lovers were involved in the inevitable arguments, judgements, and prejudice-as they encountered each other when the two didn't expect it. As trouble arose, it was clear to see how very different conflicts could be resolved by two types of cultures. All in all, I was indifferent about the movie. Although many types of emotions came from every direction, the film was predictable in many aspects. Furthermore, it was very easy to understand the film as a whole. The plot line was rather common but still original compared to other types of Hollywood and Bollywood movies. Compared to other traditional Bollywood films, there weren't as many scenes that didn't match the plot line. For example, in a classic Bollywood film, a girl and boy would be fighting because they wouldn't be able to get along well; five minutes later, they would be dancing and laughing together. In Bride and Prejudice, the story made sense and didn't falter in a way a classic Bollywood movie would. More specifically, when Lalita met Darcy's secret girlfriend, Anne, she was agitated and didn't speak to Darcy until he apologized for his actions. There was no dance number in between these scenes. Moreover, the acting in this film was very over-dramatized compared to Hollywood films. Though, this is very common among Bollywood films because the audience loves overacting and capturing drama which eventually make scenes more interesting. In the movie, Lalita's mother exaggerated her phrases as if she was always in a distressed state. Usually in a Hollywood movie, a background character wouldn't be as prominent as a main character in their words. Continuing on, the song/dance sequences were amazingly opposite and important for the plot line. In this film, the audience wouldn't have known Darcy and Lalita were on a date unless a song hadn't featured. Of course, Bollywood music was also very different than classic Hollywood. Various types of instruments and sounds were played (fast/slow) respectively to the mood of the scene. Bride and Prejudice was perfectly in the middle of Hollywood and Bollywood. The ending made this perfectly clear since a traditional Bollywood or Hollywood would never feature the different elements presented: a biracial wedding and resolved drama. As for cultural elements, the aspects of Indian norms were extremely distinct from the American norms. Starting out with couples, Mr. and Mrs. Bakshi most likely had an arranged marriage. They expected love to come from within after their partnership was planned. But for couples like Jaya and Balraj, they expected their love to grow and their relationship to bloom from the love they received from their family. On the other hand, Lalita and Darcy expected that their families would only learn to accept the love they wanted to cherish. Without a doubt, these three couples experienced love from three different perspectives. The director of this film, Gurinder Chahad, was most likely trying to convey that cross cultural relationships do not always have to to have something in common, reiterating the fact that, "opposites do attract."

Pride and Prejudice is a very interesting movie to have seen. The movie starts with some westerners visiting India to get a bride. The movie focuses largely on American man, William Darcy and Lalita from the Indian family who is having one of their daughters married to a man named Belraj. The movie has fairly simple plot as Will falls in love Lalita despite their rough patches throughout the movie. The movie's main turning point is when Will and Lalita are in California and Will gives himself a shot at redemption and win Lalita's heart. After they leave California, Lalita, her family, and Will, his sister, and Belraj return to India for the wedding and Lalita and Will are happily united. While I am not a person who favors romantic films it was interesting enough for me to keep watching it.Pride and Prejudice is a movie that is a crossover between Bollywood and Hollywood to give a taste of Bollywood like films. For example an average Bollywood film has a lot of dancing, singing, tends to be a few hours long, simple plot, and more cultural elements of India. The film has a lot more singing and dancing than an average Hollywood film but does have the songs fit in with the plot and film to an extent to fit in with Hollywood. The movie also has a fairly simplistic plot with Will falling for Lalita and the only minor plot twist is one guy being a man whore named Wickham. The movie however is a lot shorter than an average Bollywood at around an hour and a half. However the movie shows more Bollywood with its cultural values of marriage with arranged marriages and letting the parents pick the husband like with Belraj in the movie. The movie shows more Hollywood as well when they have the scene with Will confessing his love for Lalita. Despite some Bollywood features however the movie is overall more Hollywood in nature. The movie does show a fair bit of cultural elements to show more of what India is like. They have value arranged marriages more in their culture like with Belraj and Jaya. Another example of their culture is a lot of their colorful clothing that they wear throughout the movie. Another piece of their culture is how much family oriented they are in the movie. The film shows that family matters a lot to the people over anything else like towards the end of the movie with Beckham and Lalita's younger sister. They also portray the movie with a fair bit of dancing to show they value celebrations in the movie. In the end the director did a pretty good job of displaying the cultural elements throughout the film.

No need to tell what the story about, but one who didn't know yet, it's the story of love of two persons. The one person has prejudice towards the other. And the other supposedly has a lot of pride. With some other problem of another characters intertwined the story of these two persons and beautiful view scenery and a lot of music.It's fun to see how the film fits to the real story of Pride and Prejudice, especially how it converts to modern film or how it converts to Indian culture. Each four actors which play as the daughters fit as they character portrait, the kind, smart, naughty, and nerd. The cobra dance performance by the nerd daughter is hilarious and entertaining while still has some little choreography art. The only name still the same from P&P is only Mr. Darcy. I especially like the scene of dance performances which used two sticks. The only thing annoys me is how it shows the dances early in the film, which I had almost fast forward because it made me bored. It would be better to prepare the film with story first then one could enjoy the dances more. Although it lacks the complexity of P&P it stills enjoyable and it's a good introduction for one that haven't read the book.