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Monsoon Wedding (2002)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:100
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Monsoon Wedding is a colorful, exuberant celebration of modern-day India, family, love, and life.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 22, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $13,708,817
Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Vasundhara Das, Parveen Dabaas
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, 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
Director: Mira Nair
Director: Mira Nair
Screenwriter: Sabrina Dhawan
Producer: Caroline Baron, Mira Nair
Composer: Mychael Danna
Studio: USA Films
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Reviews for Monsoon Wedding
Director Mira Nair pulls together the Indian diaspora in this energetic, charming and occasionally chilling slice of Punjabi life.
Una delicia, una cinta obligada y algo de lo mejor que se ha visto en mucho tiempo.
Provides a visually dazzling and deeply affectionate glimpse of the tensions and traditions that animate much of modern Indian life.
With this movie, [Nair] seems to have gotten every atom of her cosmopolitan sensibility onto the screen in one chaotic but cogent swirl of influences.
Even if you think New Delhi is a long way away, the people in this intimate movie are as close to us as family.
Nair ... in crafting an enchanting movie about a modern Indian family, fills the screen with blooming marigolds, blossoming romances and sizzling dance scenes thrown in just for the heck of it.
A feast for the eyes and ears as its story is a banquet for the heart.
This eye-popping Indian wedding comedy is a guaranteed art-house hit. Too bad it misses all the good jokes.
This is a gorgeous film - vivid with color, music and life. Delight your senses and crash this wedding!
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