Word: mayeda
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...family in Amritsar, Punjab. Both 19th century Britain and modern India are societies with strict modes of behavior, where subversion is practiced with a raised eyebrow. (A recent, pretty decent Pride and Prejudice, available onDVD, was set amid another cloistered group, young Mormons.) But Chadha and co-writer Paul Mayeda Berges seem less interested in explaining India's social conservatism than in larkishly mocking it, pinching the cheeks of the supporting characters until they blush into stereotype: the wedding-manic mother, the catty friend, the nouveau riche boor. A true Bollywood film is ever on the verge of tears; this...