Bride & Prejudice / Bride and Prejudice movie review * Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Daniel Gillies, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar, Indira Varma, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Meghna Kothari

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'Bride and Prejudice' - 'A Perfect Love Story'

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Credits
Producer/s:	Miramax Distribution (Deepak Nayar)
Director:	Gurinder Chadha
Cast:	Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Daniel Gillies, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar, Indira Varma, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Meghna Kothari, Peeya Rai Chowdhary, Nitin Chandra Ganatra, Sonali Kulkarni, Anu Malik
Music:	Anu Malik

'Bride and Prejudice' starts in Amritsar and ends in LA. We are talking about the love story of Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) and (William Darcy) Martin Henderson. This explains the Hindi title, 'Balle Balle Amritsar to LA'.

The film opens with the Bakshi daughters, Jaya (Namrata Shirodkar), Lalita (Aishwarya Rai), Meghnaa and Lakhi (Peeya Rai Choudhuri) getting ready for the neighbour's marriage. The mother (Nadira Babbar), like all mothers is hopeful that her daughters will find suitable matches at the wedding.

Balraj (Naveen Andrews), a close friend of the bridegroom, arrives from the US with his sister, Kiran (Indira Verma), and his American friend, Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) to attend the wedding.

Balraj is the cynosure of all (mothers of young girls') eyes, for he is an eligible bachelor. However, he falls in love at first sight with Jaya. Will too is attracted to Lalita at first sight but is not aware that it is love. Ditto for Lalita. Sparks fly between the two and they share a hate relationship. Lalita misunderstands him to be a pompous and self-centred person. Her opinion is strengthened by the slimy Daniel Gillies (Johnny Wickham), poisoning her mind. She imagines herself to be in love with Wickham. On the sly, Wickham is also encouraging Lakhi (who is very open about her attraction to him) to fall for him.

Soon the men leave the women behind in distress and in comes a distant relative of the Bakshis, Mr. Kohli (Nitin Ganatra) from the US. The determined mother decides to get him hooked to Lalita who turns him down at the first opportunity. On the rebound, he proposes to Lalita's best friend, Chandra (Sonali Kulkarni), who agrees. So the Bakshi women are invited to LA to attend the wedding. Here they run into their respective men and after a bit of hedging and hawing, their lives are sorted out.

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