We wish Miss Austen was alive to see this day. The day when Bennett family, of her most prized work, has become the Bakshis from a Punjabi village and Aishwarya Rai is nubile Elizabeth Bennett oops... Bakshi.

Welcome to Gurinder Chadhah's 'Bride and Prejudice', Ms Austen, who thinks you must had been a punjabi girl too in your previous life.

Apart from Aishwarya Rai, the film stars Namrata Shirodkar in the lead role. The music of the film is composed by Anu Malik while Farhan Akhtar turns lyricist along with his sister Zoya.

It's a story of a family with four daughters and how their parents find it difficult to get grooms for them because they cannot afford to pay huge sums as dowry. Martin Henderson plays Mr Darcy, a wealthy American. His unsavoury friend Mr Bingley, being played by Daniel Gillies of Spider Man-2, is still an Englishman but a barrister.

At the moment, Chadhah is shooting for the film in Amritsar and it's adjoining areas like Jandiala Guru and Chiddan Village. If you're an ardent Aishwarya fan, this is your best bet to get close to this green-eyed beauty.