The director of the movie though, maintains the comedic nature of the film as a way of allowing the adaptation to address the same themes as the book: class, culture and gender (Wilson 2006: 323-4).
The movie has no choice but to be different from the book because it seeks to present the story, which was originally intended to be for an early nineteenth century audience, to a mass contemporary audience. This poses a challenge in terms of representation. As such, what occurred was a hybrid, which magnified the problems associated with adaptations of books, at the same time as it blends Hollywood and Bollywood. This breeds a different audience, one that is not necessarily as in tune with the context that Austen establishes in her novel, a context where women feel as though they need to get married as the only solution to being socially secure. (Wilson 2006: 324). This movie is an example of the British identity being challenged by an emerging Indian/Asian cultural force, especially when it comes to race, class and gender. The director uses this movie as a way to examine assumptions about race and gender from both sides of a patriarchal Western framework. What this produces is a contemporary attempt at capturing the social phenomena that shape cultural and individual identities, but of course the way that is done is somewhat different, but given the circumstances (that it is a contemporary Bollywood adaptation of a nearly two century old novel), this is arguably unavoidable (Wilson 2006: 325).
One of the main differences between the two versions, and one that is not intended to be a secret, is that the director of the movie integrates and examines contemporary cultural stereotypes using Austen's story and her themes. According to the director, Gurinder Chadha, "'Bride and Prejudice' is a multi-national, multi-cultural crowd-pleaser that touches on American imperialism, the way the west looks at India and what people regard as backward or progressive.
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Many of them encountered prejudice, born of ignorance and fear. ... Often the Asian Indians were lumped together with other Asian peoples as "Asiatics," whom prejudices whites considered unfit to be part of American society (22). ... When he applied for entry to the United States, Tagore encountered difficulties and when he finally made it to the country, he experienced racial prejudice in Los Angeles. ... In recent years, Asian Indians have been among the victims of violence fueled by prejudice. ... Since they were denied the right to own land until 1947, property ownership is a matter of pri...
Where the earlier films were critical of American society, its prejudices and aimed to teach liberal ideas of quality. ... Perhaps, also, the film deliberately panders to the idyllic American rural myth in its celebration of guns, honesty, loyalty, pride, temperance, and abstinence from vice-the usual sentiments. We see that his marriage is conducted in a secular ceremony, performed by a judge in front of the flag because, although the reason given is that his bride is a Quaker, this shows the innate virtue and natural religion of Kane and that he has no need for institution liased religion ...
