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.

Even though I am not Indian, I just love her culture! They know how to party and their food is so great! It can turn even the most fanatical carnivore into an vegetarian (though their tandoori meat dishes are also excellent)! Indians are a great people! Shrewd business people but very warmhearted! I'm not a big Bollywood fan but India has a very rich film industry as well. Jai Hind everyone!!!!

Those who have read and/or have seen one or more of the umpteen bajillion screen versions of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE will find this film a hoot. It is actually an Americanized version of a Bollywood film, shorter than most the traditional Bollywood films and filled with plenty of the queen's English for any American to understand.Those who take it seriously won't get the overall humor and pure, old-style Hollywood/Bollywood musical/dancing/simplistic love story enjoyment. Anyone who just wants to have fun at a film: Watch it and be prepared to smile.WARNING: Best viewed with others who have a light-hearted, open-for-fun sense of humor.

This strange movie tracks, more or less accurately, the plot of Jane Austen's great novel. It has its Elizabeth Bennet in Lalita Bakshi (portrayed by the incomparably beautiful Aishwarya Rai), a wealthy American Darcy (Martin Henderson), Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Bennet, the Bennet sisters and stand-ins for all of the novel's other principal characters and subplots. And, of course, Lalita and Darcy are destined for one another despite her initial revulsion, just as Elizabeth and the wealthy English Darcy were. But this is Bollywood, and in addition to "Pride and Prejudice," we have an exuberant musical with elaborate choreography and gorgeous costuming that moves somewhat confusingly between a city in India, London and Beverly Hills. If you don't know the Austen novel, some of the plot twists may be difficult to follow because this movie substitutes spectacle for subtlety, and it's an uneasy mixture. Ms. Rai is astoundingly beautiful and Mr. Henderson is very handsome, and some of the musical scenes are amusing if not exactly appropriate to the story. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet (i.e., Mr and Mrs Bakshi) come closest to the originals and actually have a few lines penned by Miss Austen herself. But otherwise the movie is a mishmash of conflicting elements. (Elephants in the final wedding scene certainly reflect Indian tradition and spectacle but one can't helped wondering what Jane Austen would have done if elephants were required in her novel.) Ms. Rai and Mr. Henderson might have been served better by a movie that hewed closer to the original. They actually appear to be pretty good actors as well as a handsome couple.