{"id":345,"date":"2004-09-04T02:39:34","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T07:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=345"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"austen_gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/04\/austen_gunfight\/","title":{"rendered":"Austen gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BrideAndPrejudice1.jpg\"Keira Knightley, whose breakout role came in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham,<\/i> is going head-to-head with her former mentor as they both film<\/a> Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.<\/i> It’s a Brit vs. British Asian showdown separated only by angle and time.<\/p>\n\n

As Sajit has posted<\/a>, Chadha’s version, Bride and Prejudice,<\/i> is an unapologetically Bollywood interpretation starring Aishwarya Rai that debuts this year. Knightley’s version comes out in ’05, a traditional version with mostly British actors set in yesteryear London.<\/p>\n\n

\"BrideAndPrejudice2.jpg\"\nChadha recently released the full trailer<\/a> for her version, a light-hearted romantic comedy co-starring Martin Henderson, Namrata Shirodkar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Indira Varma and Ashanti. Check out the bit where Henderson describes bhangra (‘screw in a lightbulb with one hand and pet the dog with the other.’)<\/p>\n\n

Throw in the Mr. D’Arcy character from Bridget Jones’ Diary,<\/i> he of the ugly jumper, and never-married miss Jane is gettin’ some lowe. And she’s not the only one. Considering all the desi shout-outs scampering through Vanity Fair<\/a>,<\/i> and the desi re-imaginings of Twelfth Night<\/i><\/a> and A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/a>,<\/i> the English are in for some hot, back-door reverse colonialism action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keira Knightley, whose breakout role came in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham, is going head-to-head with her former mentor as they both film Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It’s a Brit vs. British Asian showdown separated only by angle … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}