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Box Office: $13,708,817
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CONSENSUS
Monsoon Wedding is a colorful, exuberant celebration of modern-day India, family, love, and life.
CAST & CREW
Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Vasundhara Das
Directed by Mira Nair
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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 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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language, including some sex-related dialogue
RUNTIME
1 hour, 54 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 22, 2002
Video: Sep 24, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
USA Films
GENRE
Comedies, Romance, Weddings, India
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Monsoon Wedding Site
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 "So purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it's a fairly straightforward remake of Hollywood comedies such as Father of the Bride."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Mira Nair's distinctive, wholly engaging approach is somewhere between Dogme-style immediacy and Bollywood-calibre excess."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"Rarely do films come along that are as intelligent, exuberant, and moving as Monsoon Wedding."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"It's never laugh-out-loud funny, but it is frequently amusing."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"All in all, a great party."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Nair’s cast is so large it’s Altman-esque, but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"Es una de esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado, agradecido, genuinamente sorprendido."
-- Enrique Buchichio, URUGUAY TOTAL
"A burst of color, music, and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at."
-- Shay Casey, DAILY-REVIEWS
"Nair doesn't treat the issues lightly. She allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly."
-- Sandi Chaitram, BBCI FILMS
"Nair doesn't use [Monsoon Wedding] to lament the loss of culture. Instead, she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"Nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations..."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"So infectious, so colorful, so exhilarating, that you almost forget that at its core, it's merely a curry-inflected remake of Father of the Bride, with snippets of other films thrown in."
-- Jill Cozzi, COZZI FAN TUTTI CELLULOID MUSINGS
 "A little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment, not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama, Monsoon Wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the Bollywood films."
-- Mike D'Angelo, MAN WHO VIEWED TOO MUCH
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"An infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"The humor and humanity of Monsoon Wedding are in perfect balance."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"A captivating cross-cultural comedy of manners."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"... by the time it's done with us, Mira Nair's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery, of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"delightfully rendered"
-- Carlo Cavagna, ABOUTFILM.COM
"Nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose, poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"a joyous occasion"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"...plenty of warmth to go around, with music and laughter and the love of family."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"It's funny, touching, dramatically forceful, and beautifully shot."
-- Pete Croatto, FILMCRITIC.COM
"This is a gorgeous film - vivid with color, music and life. Delight your senses and crash this wedding!"
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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Avg. Rating: 8.5/10 |
"Uneven, but worth the trip."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Nair stuffs the film with dancing, henna, ornamentation, and group song, but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"Throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hedonist in us all, Nair has constructed this motion picture in such a way that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one time or another."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Cinematic home cooking at its most savory."
-- Jay Carr, BOSTON GLOBE
"Filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels. So, too, is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's New Delhi."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"A feel-good picture in the best sense of the term."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Exhilarating ensemble piece from India."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"The movie gains more resonance as it goes along, drawing us in just as large family reunions do."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"The old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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"A film centering on a traditional Indian wedding in contemporary New Delhi may not sound like specialized fare, but Mira Nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences."
-- Michael Dequina, FILM THREAT
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