Bride & Prejudice

 | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD
• ASIN: B000644IP8
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,095 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hindi soundtrack - a perfect complement to the US release, October 23, 2005

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bride & Prejudice (Audio CD)

The Balle Balle! Amristar to LA soundtrack is the true, Hindi version of the Bride and Prejudice soundtrack. It shares a couple of the tracks on the English release (including Balle Balle), but there are also some important differences between the two CDs. For one thing, this album does not include all of the songs from the English album; the excluded tracks are Arrogance, Pride, and Vanity, Lalita Walks Away, Ashanti's Touch My Body, and Marriage End.

On the plus side, though, you get a significantly longer version of Dola Dola, Hindi versions of No Life Without Wife and A Marriage Has Come to Town (Lo Shaadi Aayi), and three versions of Take Me to Love (Tumse Kahen Ya, Hum Na Kahen), including an instrumental that really showcases the beauty of the music. I love the English version of this song, but the Hindi version is even better (despite the fact I know nothing about the language whatsoever). It would be hard to find a more beautiful love song than this one.

The English soundtrack is all most Bride and Prejudice fans will need, but those truly enraptured with the film's music should not be satisfied until they acquire both versions of the soundtrack. In my opinion, Balle Balle! Amristar to LA is worth it for Tumse Kahen Ya, Hum Na Kahen alone.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pros and cons of going for the import over the US release, February 19, 2005

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Andy Orrock (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bride & Prejudice (Audio CD)

'Balle Balle! Amristar to LA' is the title of the Indian release of Gurinder Chadha's 'Bride and Prejudice,' her follow-up to the worldwide smash 'Bend It Like Beckham.' There are are pros and cons of going for the import version of the soundtrack over the domestic release. On the 'pro' side, you get each of these songs they way they were intended to be sung and heard, i.e., in Hindi. For fans of the 'Beckham' soundtrack, you know what an enjoyable listening experience that can be.

On the 'con' side, the import is quite a bit shorter. Ashanti's tune is gone (not a great loss...what the heck was she doing in this movie anyway?), but there are also a couple of numbers, quite captivating in the film, which didn't find their way onto the import. Notably they are: 'Marriage Has Come to Town' (the street scene with Aishwarya Rai and two friends surrounded by teeming groups of spectators divided into color groups - one of the film's indelible scenes); and 'Marriage End' the short piece the ends the film (featuring a great "will she or won't she" moment as Ms. Rai sidles close to co-star Martin Henderson and looks for a moment like she might bestow a kiss on him...but the Rai legend remains unbroken).

5.0 out of 5 stars Indian music, April 5, 2008

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Alina (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bride & Prejudice (Audio CD)

Awesome music, and even better the movie adaptation to such a well known story. "The rythm is gonna get you!" to quote a character in the movie.
Welcome to Hollywood, Aishwarya!