Monsoon Wedding (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 20, 2009
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Naseeruddin Shah | |
Performer: | Lillete Dubey, Vasundhara Das, Parveen Dabaas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kamini Khanna, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tilotama Shome, Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dubey, Randeep Hooda, Sameer Arya & Soni Razdan | |
Directed by | Mira Nair | |
Screenwriting by | Sabrina Dhawan | |
Composition by | Mychael Danna | |
Produced by | Caroline Baron & Mira Nair | |
Director of Photography: | Declan Quinn | |
Executive Production by | Jonathan Sehring & Caroline Kaplan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Nair's stereotype-shattering movie -- like the polymorphous culture it illuminates -- borrows from Bollywood, Hollywood and cinema verite, and comes up with something exuberantly its own.
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Newsweek
Much of the movie's incidental fun comes from acute little observations and clever set-pieces.
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Observer (UK)
[A] comical, and at one point, startling film about an upwardly mobile Punjabi family....A string of small, exquisite gems.
Wall Street Journal
...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...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: B --
... among the most universal of films
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Old School Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
Not content to merely direct traffic of intersecting characters, Mira Nair never lets the scurrying ensemble lag or their stories flag. "Monsoon Wedding" is one of the most culturally savory, joyously exotic comedies since "Strictly Ballroom."
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The Film Yap
The impression of cosmopolitan modern India, of diaspora lives thrown into collision and collusion, is engaging in itself, but the emotional optimism here is the most heartening aspect of this vivacious film.
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Time Out
Product Description:
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.
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Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair's exuberant MONSOON WEDDING, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family's only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches--Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she's never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father's hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck--as well as burried family secrets. But Nair's celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
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