Bride and Prejudice(or Pride and Prejudice, Redux) by Gurinder Chadha

There was some interesting issues regarding this movie. We had two poeple from different worlds who unwitting fell for each other despite the differences. Darci(Henderson), an American, rich playboy type and Lalita(Rai) the oldest of four daughters who come from humble upbringings with a mom hoping to marry off her girls and a father who watches with little to say, but wise things to say. We had class issues(rich vs. poor). We had culture issues where Darci's friend is Indian(Andrews) and was arranged to get married, which is normal in the Indian culture as well as Non-Western cultures. Though, it was interesting to find out from Darci's rival, that he was "arranged" to be married to another rich, American, white girl by his mother(Mason). This contradicted his earlier disapproval of his friends arranged marraige. You had identity lost with the Indian accountant who wanted a wife in America, but one who still has Indian qualities. Yet, he seem to love America so much that he put down his own heritage at time to make America sound so much better. This imperialist way of thinking unfortunately happens too much for most of foreign countries taste. Lalita thought this way about Darci and this was one of the things that got them to not get together until the climax of the movie. What I took from this is that you can not judge a book by its cover most of the time and that love can come from anywhere.