With extreme prejudice - Bride and Prejudice
I never thought that one day I will see an almost mainstream Bollywood movie in a normal cinema full of non-Indian audience.
It was very funny and very enjoyable.
Bride and Prejudice works because of its stereotypes and caricatures. Please don't expect to see a faithful Jane Austen reproduction, on whose work it is based. It's a mix of over the top Bollywood melodrama and Hollywood expectations.
Aishwarya Rai, the ex-Miss World, is a disappointment in the acting department. She is very pretty, but looks very plastic. Her romantic scenes with Martin Henderson are very contrived and painful to watch. In comparison, her sisters in the movie, especially, Namrata Shriodkar, come out loooking better.
I cringed at the sight of gospel singers, lifesavers and surfers singing to the tune of Bollywood. Some of the songs were very chessy because they were sung in English and they just didn't seem right.
The scenes in Amritsar are the best, especially the ones involving Mr. Kohli and Mrs. Bakshi. The Cobra dance was hillarious.
Good fun.