There are many examples such as Monsoon Wedding (2001), and Bride and Prejudice (2004). The film offers a contemporary discussion of arranged marriage, Indian immigration to the US and UK, and the expectations and approaches to marriage of Indian immigrant bachelors.ĥ. Gurinder Chandra's Bollywood influenced film, Bride and Prejudice (2003) is an updated version of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Each of these films features a debate about life partners and romance and also often includes a vibrant set that showcases Indian culture through marriage. Pandya, American Desi Productions, USA and India, 2001) Chutney Popcorn (1999), Monson Wedding (2001) and Bride and Prejudice (2003). Popular films among the Indian diasporic population in the US include American Desi (d. The growing recognition of Bollywood films and themes televised in US cable packages is a testimony to the power of performance (particularly dance, music, and fashion) and the spectacle of difference in ornate wedding dramas. Wayne Wang, Hollywood Pictures, USA, 1993), are only a few of the films that portray arranged marriages in Asian American communities.Ĥ. Kayo Hatta, Cecile Films and Miramax, Japan and USA, 1994) and The Joy Luck Club (d. Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States, New Brunswick, NJ:: Rutgers UP. For more information of South Asians and arranged marriage see Davé and also Abraham Abraham, Margaret. More generally, I prefer to discuss the narratives as part of a broader group of South Asian and South Asian Americans that include a diverse social and cultural group with different relationships to colonial and post colonial narratives and to mass media.Ģ. The majority of representations feature Indian and Indian American narratives and hence my language uses Indians specifically in the essay.
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