Monsoon Wedding (2002)
Monsoon Wedding (2002)
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Critic Consensus: An insightful, energetic blend of Hollywood and Bollywood styles, Monsoon Wedding is a colorful, exuberant celebration of modern-day India, family, love, and life.
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Cast
as Lalit
as Pimmi
as Ria
as P.K.
as Alice
as Aditi
as Hemant
as C.L.
as Shashi
as Vikram Mehta
as Aliya Verma
as Tej Puri
as Ayesha Verma
as Varun Verma
as Rahul Chadha
as Mohan Rai
as Saroj Rai
as Uday Verma
as Sona Verma
as Veena Verma
as Vijaya Puri
as Lottery
as Tameez-Ud-Din
as Yadav
as Old Mother
as P.K. Dube's Mother
as Jibesh
as Vandana
as Leena
as Shelly
as Umang Chadha
as Cop No. 1
as Cop No. 2
as Golfer
as Golfer
as Golfer
as Talk Show Panelist No. 1
as Talk Show Panelist No. 2
as Talk Show Panelist No. 3
as Dubbist
as Talk Show Assistant
as Sari Salesman
as Jai Chand
as Photographer
as Woman in the Rain
as Man in Foxtrotting Couple
as Woman in Foxtrotting Couple
as Featured Punjabi Singer
as Featured Solo Singer
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
as Tuppa Girl
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Critic Reviews for Monsoon Wedding
All Critics (119) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (113) | Rotten (6) | DVD (13)
A late radical shift in tone, from jittery exuberance to ruinous alienation, strikes an impressive contemporary note amid all the obeisance to custom.
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.
Splashy, noisy and downright fun.
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.
A feel-good picture in the best sense of the term.
A movie to fall in love by and with, a wedding to unite both the two film families and the dazzled multicultural movie audiences who watch them.
Audience Reviews for Monsoon Wedding
A slow-burn that by the end, has you completely enraptured - it's unfortunate that this film doesn't seem to be seen as more than a love story, there's really a lot going on here. The way the film gets past arranged marriage and works its way into love is simplistic but beautiful, and the low-class love story is also incredibly charming, but perhaps most importantly, this film may have cast the mold for the "Family Secret Revealed In Stress Of Wedding Movie." The subplot with the eldest cousin and the uncle might be the strongest aspect of the film, and it adds a crushing reality to the supposed beauty of a wedding. If you liked Rachel Getting Married or Margot at the Wedding, look back to this film: it broke the ground, and more than that, it will take you away to India for an hour or two. Good for a lot of reasons.
Super Reviewer
Good story set in India about a large family and their daughter who is to have an arranged marriage. This is one of the more positive stories of that scenario - not what you normally see, where someone is being forced to marry and is unhappy. There is still plenty of trauma here, so don't let that put you off - it is not a normal romantic wedding movie, although there is some romance in it. I found this one very hard to put in a box as it is quite unique. Beautiful to look at also, I loved all the beautiful orange flowers that seemed to run a theme through this. It also shows a lot of India. It is a little hard to get into at first, but it is worth it, and the Bollywood style singing is at a minimum, so actually quite enjoyable when it does happen. Give it a go!
Super Reviewer
Fabulous in the sense that it paints a wonderful palette of dynamics in an Indian family. It's not too culture-centric so the mainstream can appreciate it too, the conflict is serious but not too heavy, and you can feel the love just seeping throughout each crack. "Rachel Getting Married" without the psychosis. I kinda wish there were songs though. Just because it's Indian.
Super Reviewer
Monsoon Wedding Quotes
| Lalit Verma: | These are my children, and I will protect them from myself, if I have to.... |
| Lalit Verma: | These are my children, and I will protect them from myself even if I have to. |
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