Bride and Prejudice is a 2004 romantic musical film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges is a Bollywood-style adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It was filmed primarily in English, with some Hindi and Punjabi dialogue. The film released in the United States on 11 February 2005 and was well-received by film critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 81% of 32 professional critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 6.8 out of 10. This film was the debut of R&B singer Grammy-winner... Ashanti as an actress. The plot of the movie is based on Austen′s novel Pride and Prejudice. Some character names remain the same, while others are changed slightly, using localized names with similar pronunciation . Set in Amritsar, the story follows Lalita Bakshi, a young woman living with her doting father and helping him run the family farming enterprise; her mother, who is determined to marry off her daughters to respectable and wealthy men; and her three sisters, Jaya, Maya, and Lakhi.
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| Release date: | October 6, 2004 |
| Directed by: | Gurinder Chadha |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar |
| Editor: | Justin Krish |
| Music by: | Anu Malik, Craig Pruess |
| Cinematography: | Santosh Sivan |
| Screenplay by: | Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges |
| Estimated budget: | $7,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Pride and Prejudice |
| Genre: | Musical, Comedy |