Repeating its U.K. success, BRIDE AND PREJUDICE has emerged at the top of the South African box office.
‘Bride and Prejudice’ is pitted against two Hollywood biggies - Denzel Washington’s ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ directed by Brett Ratner and the action adventure ‘After The Sunset’, starring Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek.
‘Bride and Prejudice’ is currently being screened in countries like the UK, the Middle East, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Africa and Switzerland. It will open in the United States on February 11, 2005.
Based on Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice,” the film by Gurinder Chadha transports the story on another plane by adding an essentially Indian touch that depicts assumptions, gossip and comedy of errors.
We’re waiting PATIENTLY until February 11…*taps foot*
In the meantime, the Hollywood hype machine grinds into motion on the film’s behalf. Gurinder Chadha is interviewed by Backstage.com:
Chadha’s willingness to toss wildly divergent ethnic traditions into one cultural stew gets put to the biggest test yet in Miramax’s February release “Bride and Prejudice.” Adapting Jane Austen’s tale of uppercrust social mores to the splashy conventions of the Bollywood musical, Chadha wanted to draw the two worlds together in the hope they might be compatible. Although her audacious conceit drew mixed notices when it opened in India and Britain in early October, the film’s cheerful combination of styles and values heralds a global approach to moviemaking.
“There’s often a perspective, from people who are monocultural and monolingual, that somehow if you’re bicultural or bilingual that it’s a problem,” Chadha says. “What I try to show in my films is that you can easily move from country to country, from language to language, from culture to culture because that’s how we live our lives.”
