Gurinda Chadha puts a MONSOON WEDDING spin on Jane Austen's much-adapted story of love and money, which opens with the trenchant observation, "[i]t is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Seeking suitable husbands for her four daughters, ambitious Amritsar matron Mrs. Bakshi (Nadira Babar) sets her sites on wealthy, eligible, London-based lawyer Balraj Bingley (Naveen Andrews) for her eldest, Jaya (Namrata Shirokar). Jaya and Balraj, who's in town for a wedding, accompanied by his snooty sister, Kiran (Indira Varma), and his best friend, William Darcy (Martin Henderson), heir to an internation...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins