An exuberant family drama set in Mira Nair’s beloved Punjabi culture, where ancient tradition and dot-com modernity combine in unique and perfect harmony. As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. Monsoon Wedding traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, contingent and morality. The film celebrates a contemporary India never seen before.
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- : Mira Nair
- : Sabrina Dhawan
- : Caroline Kaplan
- : Caroline Baron
- : Mira Nair
- : Declan Quinn
- : Arjun Bhasin
- : Allyson C. Johnson
- : Kevin Banks
- : Mychael Danna
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An exuberant family drama set in Mira Nair’s beloved Punjabi culture, where ancient tradition and dot-com modernity combine in unique and perfect harmony.-
The acting and interacting of the ensemble cast is exemplary, although, because Nair forgoes easy exposition, it takes us time to sort out the various relationships, a difficulty that the disoriented groom confesses to sharing. But from the start, we're fascinated by this world and its contradictions. Much of the movie's incidental fun comes from acute little observations and clever set-pieces, such as the women's all-singing hen party (or rather henna party because it involves the bride's hands being painted ready for the nuptials) and an embarrassingly comic scene in which the police arrest the bride-to-be and her lover having back-seat sex at night during a thunderous storm. There's also a subplot of a sad wedding organiser falling in love with a beautiful servant girl.
Philip French, The Guardian
