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A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organization, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and even a new romance for the wedding planner Dubey with the housemaid Alice...
"The kind of film people tell their friends to see." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Two thumbs way up!" Ebert & Roeper
"...pulsates with unforgettable characters and...comedic situations." Desson Howe, Washington Post
"It sings, it dances, it parties with pride!" Chris Vogner, Dallas Morning News
"Director Mira Nair...aims for pure joy and achieves it." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Combining traditional ideas of marriage and family with the realities of modern life, MONSOON WEDDING is a lighthearted film from director Mira Nair (SALAAM BOMBAY!). The majority of the film takes place inside the home of an extended Punjabi family living in New Delhi who has gathered together for the arranged wedding of Adita (Vasundhara Das). She is to marry Hemant (Parveen Dabaas), a man who works in the United States. This means leaving her family home to go live with him, and though Adita says she welcomes the new opportunity, it is clear that she already feels homesick. Also at issue is the fact that she is still in love with her former boss, Vikram (Sameer Arya), a television producer who promises to divorce his wife but never does. Though Adita is careful to hide her true feelings from her family, her sister Ria (Shefali Shetty) worries that she is marrying for the wrong reasons. Ria has issues of her own. She wants to go to school in the United States and become a writer, but her family would prefer her to follow a more traditional path, and they claim that money is the reason. Meanwhile, the rebellious wedding planner, P.K. Dubey (Vijay Raaz) is falling in love with the family maid, Alice (Tilotama Shome). Sparks also fly between two of Adita's cousins, Ayesha (Neha Dubey) and Rahul (Randeep Hooda), who meet at the wedding and find that their conflicting values are a good challenge for each other. A festive film, MONSOON WEDDING is a swirling family comedy.
| Features | Scene Access | | "Making Of..." Featurette | | Director's Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | Widescreen Version | | Audio: English DTS 5.1 Surround & Dolby 5.1 Surround | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Monsoon Wedding - DVD Review By: Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/9/2009 11:09 PM | |
India native Mira Nair’s award-winning Monsoon Wedding is such a treasure. It’s funny, touching, dramatically forceful, and beautifully shot. It has some great songs. It offers a lingering and informative look at the Indian culture and its traditions. In fact, the more I describe its merits the further I drift into hyperbole. Set in present day New Delhi, the plot deals with an array of family and friends as they prepare for a big wedding. The bride, Aditi (Vasundhara Das), goes through the motions of the pre-arranged marriage, but she can't keep herself away from her ex-boyfriend....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 4/12/2005 |
| Running Time: 114 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 22284 | | UPC: 00025192228421 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Venice Film Festival (2001) |  | Mira Nair, Winner, Golden Lion | |
Venice Film Festival (2002) | | Mira Nair, Winner, Laterna Magica Prize |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...Nair's latest movie feels hearteningly assured..." 01/01/2002 p.50New York Times
"...WEDDING often has the energy of a Bollywood spectacle..." 02/22/2002 p.E14 Los Angeles Times
"...An energetic and amusing drama about the power of love to make things whole....MONSOON WEDDING has an engaging warmth and an effortless sense of life..." 03/01/2002 p.C1 Entertainment Weekly
"...The film teems with life, in every corner of the frame..." 03/01/2002 p.50-1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature....What strikes you immediately about MONSOON WEDDING is the quickness of the comedy, the deft way Nair moves between story lines..." 03/08/2002 p.29 Wall Street Journal
"[A] comical, and at one point, startling film about an upwardly mobile Punjabi family....A string of small, exquisite gems." 10/23/2009 Los Angeles Times 9 of 10
...an energetic and amusing romantic drama about the power of love to make things whole... Monsoon Wedding manages to gather all its threads so satisfactorily that audiences will feel like celebrating at the wedding as much as any of those guests. "Life is such a comedy," a celebrant says, but its not often as satisfying as the one we have here. - Kenneth Turan
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