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Article: Beautiful 'Bride' in ethnic 'Pride'.(SHOW)(MOVIES)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2005
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Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Valentine's Day is welcomed with a resounding "Yes!" by "Bride & Prejudice," the fun-loving and blithely voluptuous new romantic comedy from director Gurinder Chadha and screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges, the conjugal creative team who scored an international hit with "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002).
It's fun to imagine "Bride," a contemporary retelling - Bollywood-style - of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," forming a perpetual double bill with Mira Nair's "Monsoon Wedding." Miss Nair made the classier wedding comedy about Indian family solidarity amid matchmaking vicissitudes. Still, even the brassy, frankly ...