Bride & Prejudice (UK/USA, 2004)

Bollywood meets Hollywood.

Even if India is the biggest movie producer in the world (yep, USA is second!), it isn’t very easy to come by an indian film around here. So I said to myself :”This is your chance to finally see a real Indian movie!”

The Guru doesn’t count.

Well I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wroung, wrong.

It looked like it was going to be interesting. Subtitles, songs that actually don’t sound like what we hear in romantic comedies here and very good dance numbers. I believe that would be the Bollywood part. The problems began when it met Hollywood.

Now the characters go to the beach for a party. Nothing wrong with that, I concur. But the treatment of the subject is another matter. That is where we feel the break in the movie, where it becomes just another unnecessary romantic comedy.

It was almost as bad as the rave scene in the Matrix Reloaded. Almost but not quite. Still, that is saying a lot.

Yes the girls are beautiful, yes the story is cute and yes it ends up in a happily ever after moment. Aren’t there thousands of movies exactly like that?

A waste of time, except maybe for the first fifteen or twenty minutes.

The Guru does actually count and is still the most Bollywood you will get. Sorry.

Gog