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The culture-clash plot of filmmaker Gurinder Chada's surprise, soccer-girl-themed '02 hit Bend It Like Beckham couldn't offer American audiences much more than her bright, hand-picked sampler of India's pop music. But Chada's more traditional morality tale here (a limber adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice featuring I
The culture-clash plot of filmmaker Gurinder Chada's surprise, soccer-girl-themed '02 hit Bend It Like Beckham couldn't offer American audiences much more than her bright, hand-picked sampler of India's pop music. But Chada's more traditional morality tale here (a limber adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice featuring Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai) shimmers with the intoxicating visual and musical splendors of a full-blown Bollywood-meets-Hollywood production. The song-score by noted Indian musical star Anu Malik is charged by propulsive folk rhythms ("Punjab Wedding Song," "Dola Dola"), yet laced with knowing Western pop conceits that range from Caribbean hip-hop ("No Life Without Wife") to the Broadway-suffused ballads "A Marriage Has Come to Town," "Take Me To Love (1&2)," and "Arrogance, Pride and Vanity." American R&B star Ashanti's sultry "My Lips Are Waiting" and "Touch My Body" complete Malik's enticing East-meets-West fusion, a delightful, dizzying primer to his country's most beloved film and music genre. --Jerry McCulley
Album Details Soundtrack to the 2004 Bollywood Film Starring Aishwarya Rai, Namrata Shirodkar and Martin Henderson.the Soundtrack by Anu Malik also features R and B Artiste Ashanti.
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Track listing1. Punjabi Wedding Song 2. A Marriage Has Come To Town 3. No Life Without Wife 4. Take Me To Love (Part One) 5. Arrogance, Pride and Vanity 6. Dola Dola 7. My Lips Are Waiting (a.k.a. Goa Groove) 8. Take Me To Love (Part Two) 9. Lalitha Walks Away 10. Touch My Body 11. Marriage End
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