BRIDE AND PREJUDICE news and reviews
We dare say we shall have news about B&P every day between now and the premiere of the film on Friday. (The Editrix is attending a special pre-release screening on Thursday night, and her review will be available late that night or early Friday morning, as the case may be.)
Reuters has an article about the film that talks about the similarities between Jane Austen’s world and the world of BRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
“What’s incredible about this is that even though Jane Austen was writing 200-odd years ago, she was writing at a time when women were not considered whole unless they were married,” the Kenyan-born, British-raised Chadha said in an interview before the film’s U.S. debut.
“That is still very relevant to many places around the world, and particularly small town India,” she said.
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Driving the film, which opens nationwide on Feb. 25, was “the idea that people are the same and different,” she said.“People have the same prejudices, people have as much pride and it doesn’t matter who you are or where you are from, we are all the same, and different and that I feel needs to be noted, but also celebrated,” said Chadha.
The New York Daily News has an article about Naveen Andrews, who plays Balraj Bingley (is that really the character’s name?). The article points out that the character couldn’t be less like Naveen’s character on the television show LOST.
But in “Bride & Prejudice,” a musical version of Jane Austen’s classic novel opening Friday, Andrews plays Balraj Bingley, the good friend of Mr. Darcy, the story’s romantic hero.
Instead of early 19th-century England, the setting is modern India. And in place of a formal ball, the actors participate in what Andrews describes as “a strange amalgamation of traditional Indian dance crossed with MC Hammer.”
Those AustenBlog readers who are, like the Editrix, fans of Sayid on LOST will find find some interesting news in the article as well.
EDITED TO ADD: In other news, MSNBC doesn’t think much of the film.
