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Monsoon Wedding|Naseeruddin Shah

Monsoon Wedding

Naseeruddin Shah and Lillete Dubey
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Overview

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.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Mira Nair - Director
Naseeruddin Shah
Lillete Dubey
Shefali Shetty
Tillotama Shome
Vasundhara Das
Parvin Dabas
Kamini Khanna
Kemaya Kidwai
Roshan Seth
Ishaan Nair

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 715515049214
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: October 2009

Movie Reviews

Notes:
Theatrical release: February 22, 2002 (NY/LA)

Reviews:
"...Nair's latest movie feels hearteningly assured..." - 01/01/2002 Sight and Sound, p.50


"...WEDDING often has the energy of a Bollywood spectacle..." - 02/22/2002 New York Times, p.E14


"...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 Los Angeles Times, p.C1


"...The film teems with life, in every corner of the frame..." - 03/01/2002 Entertainment Weekly, p.50-1


"...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 Chicago Sun-Times, p.29


"[A] comical, and at one point, startling film about an upwardly mobile Punjabi family....A string of small, exquisite gems." - 10/23/2009 Wall Street Journal

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