A Year with Jane Austen
Bride & Prejudice
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. In honor of this literary giant, Enzian Theater and the Winter Park Library will celebrate with “A Year with Jane Austen”. Scheduled throughout the year, The Winter Park Library will read each of Austen’s six novels as well as screen various adaptations of the accompanying films and miniseries at both the Library and at Enzian Theater.
Bride & Prejudice:
Bollywood meets Hollywood…and it’s a perfect match.
A clash of cultures in the spirit of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, this modern musical retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Pride And Prejudice is a hilariously entertaining tale of one girl’s unlikely search for love! With four beautiful daughters of marrying age, Manorama and Chaman Bakshi frantically seek out the perfect husbands for their children. Yet their eldest daughter, Lalita (International star Aishwarya Rai), is intent upon choosing her own husband and marrying for love. Lalita endures a number of hopeful suitors, but the American William Darcy (Martin Henderson) seems different – and not always in a good way. In a swirl of music, dance and comic misunderstandings, these opposites continue to attract and repel one another in a riotous romance that spans three continents. Featuring Naveen Andrews (TV’s Lost, The English Patient) and a memorable performance from Ashanti, love will eventually conquer all in this acclaimed adaptation from the director of Bend It Like Beckham!
*Please note this special additional screening is not a part of the “A Year With Jane Austen” Series Pass, and will require a separate ticket purchase.
2004, 124 minutes, UK/US/India/France, English, Hindi, Punjabi with English Subtitles, Directed by Gurinder Chadha, Rated PG-13
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“Under the direction of "Bend It Like Beckham's" Gurinder Chadha, this festively busy and exuberantly multicultural charmer is its own intriguingly postmodern creation.”
– Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY -
“Purists who think Austen will be spinning in her grave will be wrong. She'll be dancing.”
– Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE -
“Every so often, the unseen managers of the galaxy bestow on us mere mortals a vision of rare incongruous beauty: a solar eclipse, a streaking comet, a shooting star, Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai happily riding a tractor.”
– Jessica Winter, VILLAGE VOIC -
“The best attempt at adapting Bollywood style to Western tastes since Moulin Rouge.”
– Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
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