All, I did not see the movie "Bride and Prejudice" but I am told it is along the same lines as "Bend it like Beckam" where the Indian girl finds happiness in a romantic relationship outside her cultural group, specifically with a white English boy. Interestingly, the movie was directed by an Indian woman. I think a neo-colonial mentality (self-inflicted) was at work. To be happy she had to be with a white boy, an Indian was not good enough. In "Bride and Prejudice", an Indian woman falls in love with a white boy. We do not see the reverse as if Indian or Asian men are not good enough. This racism in the movies continues today. Bollywood has it own racist version where light-skinned actors & actresses are preferred to dark-skinned ones who usually play the villain roles.
Till recently (about 5-10 years ago), one never saw an Asian man kiss a white woman in USA TV soap operas. It was ok for a white man to kiss an Asian woman, but not the other way around. In the movie "Pelican Brief" (c. 1994), the producer did not want Denzil Washington (a black man) to kiss Julia Roberts (a white woman) as America was not ready for America's sweetheart (Julia) to be kissed by a black man. Interestingly, Denzil has been married with children for any number of years and is a great role model. Julia has been married three times with any number of other publicized romances. For the producer, keeping up the fiction of white superiority should never get in the way of truth. I also think some Goans are not able to see racism in its many forms. Regards, George
