What Will People Think?

<p>''Gorgeous ... like being in <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, if Jane Austen had lived in 70s Mumbai'' HARRIET EVANS<br><br><b>''So much fun!'' KATIE FFORDE</b><br><br><b>Ila has her pride. And she''s about to discover just how much trouble that can be...</b><br><br>It''s 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class, Ila Bendre''s mother is determined to get her four daughters married off as soon as possible.<br><br>Ila has no intention of snaring a proposal from some dull specimen of Marathi manhood so she can pretend to care about cricket for the rest of her life. She wants a career and life of her own, and she''ll do whatever it takes to escape married bliss, no matter what the neighbours might say.<br><br>But when Ila''s Bollywood-obsessed younger sister, Latika, takes the matter of marriage into her own hands, it looks as if the Bendre family''s reputation in this close-knit community will be ruined once and for all...<br><br>As we follow th