Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - #21 "Bride and Prejudice"

Welcome Everyone to our 21st Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, where this week we thought we would rock out to some Bhangra and Garba - all musical styles from the movie: Bride & Prejudice, which is the Bollywood version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". Bollywood is one of the largest film producing industries in the world (the name is derived from splicing Bombay, India with Hollywood, USA). The Bollywood style is filled with muscials, amazing dance numbers and a lot of color and drama and plot twists. This movie, Bride & Prejudice is one of the first crossover movies with a leading Indian Actress: Aishwarya Rai, in an English movie. Aishwarya, was not only crowned Miss World in 1994, but has also been named as the world's most beautiful woman and in India - she is a mega superstart diva.sl

The Requirement this week:

This week's requirement for the movie challenge is to use some Bling!
This movie is filled with all kinds of sparkle, dazzle, twinkles, glimmer and glitz -

so bring out your bling and have some fun!

Quick trivia bits..

• This is Aishwarya Rai's first movie entirely in English.
• According to the director Gurinder Chadha, Ashanti's appearance in the film is meant as a homage to a tradition in Bollywood films where a celebrity would make a cameo appearance to sing a song that has no direct involvement in the plot. The rest of the characters do not interact with the celebrity but rather are seen in the crowd enjoying the show.

• Johnny Depp and Joaquin Phoenix were considered for the role of Darcy. (Sankari is probably going to faint to find out that her Jonny just might have been in the show!) {Brooke, I am reading this and totally fainting! Good thing, I am reading this on my couch! And for all those reading - I am a huge HUGE JD fan - ever since I was 12 - Swoon! :)
  

• Aishwarya Rai gained about 20 pounds for this film because she felt it was more suitable for her character to not look like a fashion model and to give her a more realistic appearance. (You Go Girl!)
  

• The Punjabi wedding song and dance number took six days to shoot.
  
  
• Many of the background dancers and extras in "A Marriage Has Come To Town" were cast from the local Sikh temple. Gurinder Chadha didn't care if he or she could dance as long as they looked like they were having fun while dancing.
  
  
• Ashanti was on tour during the filming. She had to fly into India during her break to film her part just in time to head back on tour.
  
  
• The phrase "no life without wife" is and old saying by Gurinder Chadha's father.

• The thick green book that Aishwarya Rai opens at the pool in Goa is a Jane Austen book.

• In Bollywood cinema, it is taboo to show any sort of sexual contact, even kissing. Instead they usually show some abstract representation of sexual contact, (birds chirping, waves crashing, etc.) or nothing at all. This is why in Lalitha's wedding fantasy, even though she and Darcy lean in to kiss, she leans back before their lips even touch.

Brooke's Bride and Prejudice Inspired Card:

"No LIFE with out wife"

or

"Life it's all around you.. Enjoy"

This is one of my all time Favorite movies.... I think I have watched it 1,000 times including the out-takes and the making of the movie... This movie is totally a take on "Pride and Prejudice" and what a clever way to make this classic story relate to modern day. I also love that a different culture was the focus of this film. It just goes to show that we are not all that different from each other.

My favorite things about India are SANKARI of course. (I love my Sunny Sankari she is the brightest part of my day :) or the brightest part of the middle of the night of which we share a lot of), The colors, Spice, dance and music.. I LOVE Indian food.. I only wish that I could have a good curry with my best Indian Friend... mmmmmmm! The dance moves are totally amazing. You have to be in great physical shape to be able to survive an entire Indian dance.. There are so many dance move in one song alone all telling such an amazing story..

My card is inspired by a few of my very favorite colors from India.. The pinks and oranges are so brilliant.. I chose a white card base because when I was watching this film I noticed all the amazing people and colors were popping of the screen because the background was white.

Here are a few of my favorite scenes from the movie:

Bale Bale Dance~

Dances from the Garba~

No Life Without Wife

Marrage into Town

Take me to Love~

There is a crazy dance that one of the sisters do for a dinner party.. Your job is to watch the movie and then tell us what you think... We also want to here what your favorite dance is from the movie...

Sankari's Bride and Prejudice Inspired Card:

I just love Aishwarya Rai (not as much as Madhuri Dixit - but that's a whole other story :) and I love Jane Austen and so it was awesome to watch a movie with both in one place! I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and even though I don't speak Hindi, I still love singing along and watching movies again and again. Among Bollywood lovers, Aishwarya Rai is a common household name - she is one of the top leading ladies in Bollywood and made the crossover to Hollywood with this movie: Bride and Prejudice. Aish (as she is fondly known), won the 1994 Miss World contest - check out the video of her Miss World crowning here. She was also voted as the World's most beautiful woman almost a decade later. As much as I love Aishwarya - my most favorite actress is Madhuri Dixit but that's a whole other post :)

For my card - I was tossing around so many ideas that it was hard just to pick one - but in the end, I went with one of my favorite songs between Darcy and Lalita where they are on the beach and one of the lines from the song is: two beings in one beating heart. From that sentiment, I wrote: two souls, one heart and used this beautiful red paper that totally reminded me of the wedding saris at the end of the movie. Here I took a picture of my card with one of my wedding saris - since the card is for the wedding of one of my friends.

There are so many awesome dances that its hard to pick just one - but I think my first one is the opening seuqence and also the garba-ras (the one with the sticks). I had a lot of fun watching this movie - and I hope you do too! For more details come and check out my blog!

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So are you ready to play along!! We sure hope you join us this week!

All of you have to do is make a card, layout or altered project that has bling and that is inspired by the movie Bride and Prejudice and link your creation to our blog by commenting on this post. If you are uploading to SCS please use the keyword: CSCC20 and if you are uploading it to PapercraftPlanet - please use the keyword: cinemasaturday (all lowercase and all ONE word :).

Please link to our blog by this Thursday, March 5th, 2009 by 12pm PST.

Welcome to all our new players and returnign playerWe wanted to give our Audrey to Tina for her beautiful Emma inspired card and Amy for her beautiful Benjamin Buttons inspired card. Tina's card caught our eye with its softness and sweetness - it was a unique look at the movie Emma. Amy's card really captured Daisy's character with her dancer card. Beautifully done ladies and a big thanks to all those who played along! (Even Libby's brother who first joined us in guessing the movies, joined in and made a card!) Its been so great to meet all of you through these challenges.
We are hoping to try Mr. Linky next week to make it easier for all of you to enter and see everyone else's card.


Please tell your friends about this challenge and have them join us in this fun challege. The card chosen from this challenge will be featured on PaperCraftPlanet - so come on and join the fun!!!

We can't wait to see your creations for this week's movie pick!!!

Hugs to all!
Sankari and Brooke

sneak Peek Reveal

Thanks for all the fun guesses... This was a tricky one there are just to many scenes that have MAJOR color everywhere...  You just might have guessed it to quickly.

Sneak Peek #1 and Sneak Peek #2

Lalita and here sisters in their "Grease" inspired musical number...

Sneak Peek #3 and #4

Lalita and Will Darcy on their date in L.A. (the freezing cold fountains are really located in the mid-west)

Sneak Peek #5

Will and Lalita dancing to Dola Dola at the Garba. Watch Mister Kolie (Mr Collins) he is hilarious. These scenes are in my post if you want to watch.. (Brooke)

Sneak Peek #6

Was cropped from the floor (This one is my favorite dance - Sankari :)

Sneak Peek #7

Enjoy.

Brooke & Sankari

Sneak Peek Friday

Ok cinema challenge friends.. Are you ready for another friday chat! This weeks movie will rock your world.

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

Sneak Peek # 3

Sneak Peek #4

Sneak Peek #5

Sneak Peek #6

Sheesh! 7 sneak peeks! That's a record! Last sneak peek of the night:

Have fun guessing!

Hugs

Brooke & Sankari

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - #20- The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons

Welcome Everyone to our Oscar Celebration! This idea was inspired by Ann from Creative Antics, who reminded us about the Oscars and so in keeping with that, we thought that we would do something different this saturday and do one of the movies that has been nominated for an Oscar this year: The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons. This is a little different because it is a current movie and we know, that maybe some of you might not have seen it yet, but that's okay - we would love you to play along because the theme of this card is to go vintage.

Can you believe that this is our 20th movie challenge!! Whoa! How time flies. Speaking of time... this movie is all about love lasting through time - through every stage and age. It also explores time spinning backward and moving forward at the same time. There are really some amazing concepts in this week's movie.

You all were so clever in guessing along with us yesterday! You all always amaze us by your guesses!! This movie is inspired from F.Scott Fitzgerald's 1921 inspired short story by the same name. According to Wikipedia, this movie: "has received 13 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress." All of the movies up for nomination are amazing and we can't wait to see who the Oscar goes to tomorrow evening :)

The Requirement this week:
Is to go vintage! Even if you haven't seen this movie, we would love you to play along and make vintage inspired by the tagline from this movie which is:

Life isn't measure in minutes, but in moments.

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons.

I find it funny that this movie was inspired by a short story.. It's not a short movie. My sweetie and I went to this movie together on a date. I did found myself thinking about the length of this move in the later part of it. My thought were not about the movie being to long but that it had captured my attention for such a long time and still had a great part of the story to go.  Brad pit is so amazing in this move. What a talented actor he is. What a great cast in general...  Cate Blanchett is so perfect for this roll. When I read her bio I was so surprised to not read anything about her dance training! If she was never formally trained she fooled me. She is a beautiful dancer with beautiful lines. She looks so amazing as a mother of 3 and 40 years old her youngest was born in April 2008. She was given good genes that for sure.. Elle Fanning who first plays the young Daisy has the coolest little voice it caught my attention. Listen for it when you watch the movie.. she is really beautiful as well. (Dakota Fanning's little sister). When I was reading about the casting of this movie is was cool to see the other men who plain Benjamin through out the movie in different time periods. They pull it of so well you just think Brad Pitt is playing them all.  Hope you all enjoy learning more about the movie. Run out an see it if you haven't it's a great movie.

Come visit my blog for details.

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons.

I had been resisting seeing this movie - I don't know why exactly. I went to see it with one of my dear friends and was somehow not expecting anything huge (I thought it would be a good movie, but nothing spectacular). Well, by the end of the movie - I was just sobbing.... I don't even know why - but I was just in love with the movie... there is something so simple and beautiful about it and I thought Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt (whom, I normally don't really like) were amazing - they both did such an amazing job! I couldn't believe how affected I was by the movie - I can't wait to see it again!

Without giving anything away about the movie - I loved loved loved the theme of a love story moving through time. One of my favorite scenes is when he says to her something like: I want to remember us in this moment as we are right now as they both were looking in the mirror - I totally loved that scene and so that was my inspiration for this card - where I wanted to capture a moment in time. I found pictures of my husband and myself when we were both young and enclosed that in a locket. This is a special card for my husband, who came home last night after a 2 week buisness trip. The little paper pieces that are curling on the top right corner was kinda of like a symbol of time unravelling. I love the little pictures of us when we were a baby - and always have imagined how wonderful it would be if we had grown up together and been together from the very begininng. But I am so thankful and grateful that we found each other and this little card was a little love note for his return.


I can't wait to see the rest of the movies nominated for an Oscar - they all look incredible and I can't wait to find out who the Oscars go to tommorow night. I am so glad that I had a chance to see one of the movies up for an Oscar - if you have a chnace - Give The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons a spin! - can't wait to hear what you think about it! You can check out more pictures and details on my blog.

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So are you ready to play along!! We sure hope you join us this week!

All of you have to do is make a card, layout or altered project that has a vintage feel that is inspired by the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons and link your creation to our blog by commenting on this post. If you are uploading to SCS please use the keyword: CSCC20 and if you are uploading it to PapercraftPlanet - please use the keyword: cinemasaturday (all lowercase and all ONE word :).

Please link to our blog by this Thursday, February 26, 2009 by 12pm PST.

Please tell your friends about this challenge and have them join us in this fun challege.

The card chosen from this challenge will be featured on PaperCraftPlanet - so come on and join the fun!!!

Just as the Oscar will be announced tomorrow night - we thought that we would wait till tomorrow night to announce who the Audrey goes to.

And just as everyone always likes to thank the Academy - we would like to thank YOU! You guys have made this so much fun for us and we have just totally loved being part of this challenge blog with you - it feels like a little family here - and we are all so thankful for you to play along, to guess with us, and for all your sweet comments - YOU are all truly the best!!!!

We can't wait to see your creations for this week's movie pick!!!

Hugs to all!
Sankari and Brooke

Sneak Peek Reveal

Okay - so you are all amazing - you totally guessed the movie - again! From just the littlest - tiniest slices of the movie!! Here are the sneak peek reveals from this week's movie pick:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons

Sneak Peek #1



Sneak Peek # 2

Sneak Peek #3

Sneak Peek # 4

Sneak Peek #5

You always amaze us with your guesses!!! Can't wait to see your creations from this week's Cinema Challenge!!!

Sneak Peek Friday

Welcome To our 20th Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge! That is amazing! We are all so grateful for all of you who have joined us and are playing along with these Cinema Challenges. This week in honor of our 20th challenge - we have a little different spin on our challenge :)

Here is our first sneak peek for the day: Can't wait to see your guesses!!

Here is Sneak Peek #2