February 8, 2005

Jane Austen goes to Bollywood . . .

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Jane Austen‘s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice has been made into a new movie by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chada, who has set the story in “contemporary small-town India,” according to a Reuters wire story by Paul Eckert. The new version will be called Bride and Prejudice. “”What’s incredible about this is that even though Jane Austen was writing 200-odd years ago,” says Chadha, “she was writing at a time when women were not considered whole unless they were married. That is still very relevant to many places around the world, and particularly small town India.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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