worth watching though some characters look like being misinterpreted

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2006)

I don't know whether any other work in English literature has been adapted into silver screen so many times.I know to make a comment of comparison doesn't sound good but I couldn't help myself comparing this fairly recent adaptation with the Bollywood adaptation "Bride and Prejudice". First of all this adaptation is as much loyal as it can to the work of Jane Austen. Keira Knightley performs well as Elizabeth.If you read the book you know what makes us admire Elizabeth: Her honesty,her quick-witted answers her feisty nature but we also know her with her her sharp tongue and tendency to judge quickly.The difference is right here. Aishwarya Rai in Bollywood adaptation can't give that quick-witted but honest Elizabeth. She seems more like a haughty self-centered lady who likes humiliating her interlocutor. Brenda Blethyn reflects the mother,who is consumed with the desire to see her daughters married no matter what,in excellent acting.Donald Sutherland as the self-possessed but irresponsible father is not bad either.Jane is the most beautiful one of the sisters and I guess they made some efforts to make Rosamund Pike(Jane) more beautiful than Elizabeth(Keira Knightley). I can't say they are unsuccessful. But what really caught my attention is that...we know Bingley is well-intentioned fun guy but in the movie he seems like a(what is mot juste here?)I don't know he just seems too too easygoing. He is not like Bingley in the book. We also know that Darcy is a class-conscious cold guy but Matthew Macfadyen walks like a half-fainted body(especially his eyes) all the movie even when he proposed Elizabeth the second time.Just being cold isn't necessarily having a dead-pan face.(But William Darcy in Bollywood adaptation looks cool and cheerful this must be worse to interpret Darcy's character)And last Sylvester Morand as Mr. Collins seems like a sensible guy at many points.He is just a pompous, idiotic obsequious clergyman!! In Bollywood adaptation the guy paying him looks really idiotic. All in all it's a chance to visualize Jane Austen's work. Not perfect not too bad worth watching!