Latest BRIDE AND PREJUDICE press
IC Birmingham thinks that fans of P&P2 will also enjoy BRIDE AND PREJUDICE:
Girls will be delighted to know this ‘Will Darcy’, played by American hunk Martin Henderson, gives Colin Firth a run for his money.
But the sweaty wet T-shirt look is this time left to equally rugged Daniel Gillies, as dastardly Wickham, running out of the waves in Goa.
The Times of India is bemused by the culture clash of Austen vs. Bollywood, but thinks both profit by the association.
India boldly begins its public takeover of English classics such as Jane Austen with Bollywood’s version of Pride and Prejudice getting its very first outing in the Georgian city of Bath, which the novelist loved, lived in and immortalised, on Saturday.
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Describing Austen’s much-loved novel, which regularly tops public polls as Britain’s favourite 21st-century read, as “the perennial Indian story”, Chadha said her version might have different cultures and settings but it’s still about people marrying from different backgrounds.
