The 2004 film Bride and Prejudice, produced by Gurinder Chadha, is a story about young, unwedded girls in an Indian family who are being pressured by their mother into marrying; although one daughter, Lalita, refuses to follow the traditional customs and wants to lead her own life without a who treats her like an object. Chadha is inviting viewers to challenge traditional gender roles as binding. This point is proven when Mr Kholi comes to their house and she is being pressured into marrying him, and when William Darcy and the mother objectify Lalita.
Traditional gender norms are viewed as outdated when Lalita’s choice is limited while her mother is pressuring her and her sisters into conforming into gender roles before Mr Kholi stops by, and when Mr Kholi is being rude to the girls during dinner. While the girls are
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The effect of the long high-key shot capturing all the daughters anxiously lined up is to demonstrate the intense pressure the young ladies have on them to impress Mr. Kholi by being told how to behave, what to say, and what to wear, which will cause them to lose their independence and tied to him forever. Chandra’s display of the daughters highlights how concerned they are to both present beautifully to Mr. Kholi for their mother, but also to no longer have autonomy and to be eternally binded to him if they get chosen. Furthermore, when Mr. Kholi visits, there is a close up side-lighting scene where he is evidently behaving extremely repulsive, e.g. shoving food into his mouth with his bare hands, making groaning noises, and making