MOVIES : Bride and Prejudice
This film is based on the novel of a similar name :) and directed/produced by the woman who did Baji on the Beach and Bend it like Beckam (seems to have an obsession with films starting with 'b')
It was great fun, really caught the flavour of the book, even if it was in a Bollywood setting, and had some nice things to say about the arrogant, colonial, 'we've got everything' west.
The costumes/colour was fantastic, the street scenes reminded me too much of India (and Janice of Cairo), and the dancing was fun.
The only thing I wasn't a big fan of was the music/singing. I found it didn't get my leg moving in time - and it doesn't take much to get my leg moving. And the singing felt really artificial - like it wasn't coming from the girls at all, but some other, professional singer whom they were miming to.
Janice said that she wondered if it was because we seemed to only be getting sound from the front speakers, not surround, and I guess taht is possible. It just didn't seem to have the punch I would like from a fun bollywood 'musical'.
It was great fun, really caught the flavour of the book, even if it was in a Bollywood setting, and had some nice things to say about the arrogant, colonial, 'we've got everything' west.
The costumes/colour was fantastic, the street scenes reminded me too much of India (and Janice of Cairo), and the dancing was fun.
The only thing I wasn't a big fan of was the music/singing. I found it didn't get my leg moving in time - and it doesn't take much to get my leg moving. And the singing felt really artificial - like it wasn't coming from the girls at all, but some other, professional singer whom they were miming to.
Janice said that she wondered if it was because we seemed to only be getting sound from the front speakers, not surround, and I guess taht is possible. It just didn't seem to have the punch I would like from a fun bollywood 'musical'.
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