My wife and I saw this film last night and loved it. It might have been a tad too long but then so is Pride and Prejudice. My wife is an English teacher and will be recommending the film to her pupils as a way of viewing P&P in a different way. It's a clever matching of the arranged marriages and aspirations in Indian society with the class system in Jane Austen's time.
The costumes are fantastic, the daughters stunningly beautiful, the colours are wonderful and the sets are very dramatic at times. I liked so much of the music that I'll be buying the soundtrack if they ever release one. I'll certainly be buying the DVD. Who cares about the lyrics? I never actually listened to them but just enjoyed the cadence. Anyway, the songs are supposed to be melodramatic, cheesy and sentimental.
I am not Asian, and this is (almost) my first Bollywood style film. Well, I've seen bits of Asoka but haven't quite watched it end to end yet. I'm also not usually a fan of musicals (which I think this film could be described as) but this one worked.
I would give this a 7 out of 10.
The costumes are fantastic, the daughters stunningly beautiful, the colours are wonderful and the sets are very dramatic at times. I liked so much of the music that I'll be buying the soundtrack if they ever release one. I'll certainly be buying the DVD. Who cares about the lyrics? I never actually listened to them but just enjoyed the cadence. Anyway, the songs are supposed to be melodramatic, cheesy and sentimental.
I am not Asian, and this is (almost) my first Bollywood style film. Well, I've seen bits of Asoka but haven't quite watched it end to end yet. I'm also not usually a fan of musicals (which I think this film could be described as) but this one worked.
I would give this a 7 out of 10.