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	Monsoon Wedding
		MONSOON WEDDING traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality.
		MONSOON WEDDING echoes this Bollywood spirit with its vibrant score and with Ayesha's climactic dance number the night before the wedding.
		MONSOON WEDDING is a celebration of the sensual pleasures of cinema, of love at any age-anytime, and of the importance of family.
	www.mirabaifilms.com /monsoon.html (851 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Monsoon Wedding' an India aria - February 22, 2002
		In "Monsoon Wedding," we meet the Vermas, a very proper, upper-middle-class Punjabi family in Delhi, as they gather their extended relatives around them for a celebration.
		In "Monsoon Wedding," Lalit (Naseeruddin Shah), the addled patriarch, is a good man who is working hard to do the right thing for his daughter, yet from the way he keeps snapping at everyone, barking frantic orders into his cell phone, it's clear that he doesn't have a clue.
		"Monsoon Wedding" kicks off on a note of frenetic high bustle that takes a bit of getting used to (you have to concentrate, early on, to sort out the cousins from the in-laws from the wedding planner), but the mood of upbeat chattery chaos is infectious.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/22/ew.rec.monsoon (701 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Monsoon Wedding'
		Centering on a young woman's arranged wedding in a modernized Delhi, Monsoon Wedding juggles different stories involving the reluctant bride (Vashundhara Das) and her relatives--and does it with the craft and panache of an Altman or a Soderbergh.
		Monsoon Wedding is a feast for the eyes and the ears, and sometimes, as in those throw-away satirical moments, the brain.
		Monsoon Wedding (R; 114 min.), directed by Mira Nair, written by Sabrina Dhawan, photographed by Declan Quinn and starring Vasundhara Das and Vijay Raaz, opens Friday at Camera One and Century 25 in San Jose and the CinéArts in Palo Alto.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.07.02/monsoonwedding-0210.html (749 words)

	Film Review: Monsoon Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Aditi is still attracted to a married television presenter, her father needs to borrow money to finance the wedding and his unmarried niece Ria has to contend with the resurfacing of a painful childhood secret.
		It is as refreshing as the monsoon rains that fall on the wedding day to see such warm and vibrant female characters.
		The father’s repeated exasperation with his sons and Dubay the wedding organiser is a wonderful example of this.
	web2447.vs.netbenefit.co.uk /cgi/xtranews/fullnews.cgi?newsid1012223305,1041, (474 words)

	Monsoon Wedding
		Monsoon Wedding is a nice melding of the two, presenting a decidedly Indian film in such a manner as to appeal to all audiences.
		Monsoon Wedding is about the melding of two cultures, traditional Indian and Western (well, maybe not "Western" per se).
		Part of the reason Monsoon Wedding is so much fun to watch is because there is such a feeling of hope and optimism, supplemented by the music.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/monsoon_wedding.html (608 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Monsoon Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		What strikes you immediately about "Monsoon Wedding" is the quickness of the comedy, the deft way Nair moves between story lines, the brilliant colors of Declan Quinn's cinematography, and the way music is easily woven into the narrative.
		There is a lot of singing and dancing in "Monsoon Wedding," but all of it emerges in a logical way from the action, as it might in a Hollywood musical.
		"Monsoon Wedding," which won the Golden Lion as the best film at Venice 2001, is the kind of film where you meet characters you have never been within 10,000 miles of, and feel like you know them at once.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020308/REVIEWS/203080301/1023 (832 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Monsoon Wedding
		In Monsoon Wedding, her artist's palette is a traditional wedding arch of marigolds, and richly colored, elegant silk fabrics juxtaposed to the grimy, chaotic and polluted streets of Delhi, India.
		Monsoon Wedding is a must see movie, if not for the exciting visuals and entrancing soundtrack, then for the artistic style of storytelling and constantly engaging characters.
		Monsoon Wedding could very well be a pilot for a Dallas-like television series...a much more beautiful Dallas television series however.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/monsoonwedding.htm (639 words)

	EI > DVD > Monsoon Wedding (2002)
		“Monsoon Wedding” is a perfect example of Nair’s ability to subtly bring out the beauty of her characters.
		The film is less about a wedding and more about the family’s ability (or lack thereof) to tackle these deep seeded problems in time for the grand event.
		Nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Foreign Film this year, “Monsoon Wedding” is not only a tender look inside a typical Indian family, but a celebration of the ever-changing culture of modern-day India.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/monsoonwedding.php (764 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - Monsoon Wedding
		An arranged wedding in Delhi, India is the setting for this delightful film.
		The movie is about a wedding, but it's so much more - there are multiple stories going on exploring the full range of emotions from tragic to comic.
		'Monsoon Wedding' fills the theatre with vibrant colors and joyful sounds; the music is an interesting mix of the marching band sound with traditional and modern Indian.
	www.themoviechicks.com /mar2002/mcrmonsoon.html (474 words)

	[Atelier] recycled and remixed--monsoon wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While in most films, the songs are deliberate set-pieces (with the entire plot put on hold while the characters sing and run round trees), in Monsoon Wedding the songs are part of the life and pulse of the movie.
		Monsoon Wedding is centered around the blossoming love of the young bethrothed couple Aditi (Vasundhara Das) and Hemant (Parvin Dabas).
		Nonetheless, Danna's first-hand familiarity with the traditional trombone-laden wedding orchestras is evident in the joyous and appropriately raucous Baraat, which serves as both the title music and the music of the baraat at the movie's eponymous close.
	mail.sarai.net /pipermail/atelier/2003-November/000058.html (1345 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Monsoon Wedding" review (2002) Mira Nair, Naseeruddin Shah, Vasundhara Das
		"Monsoon Wedding" could be seen as Bollywood's answer to "Father of the Bride," but such a comparison would be selling short this choice culture clash comedy-drama.
		Directed by Mira Nair ("Salaam Bombay!," "Mississippi Masala," "Kama Sutra") with a light touch and a palpable affection for her characters, "Monsoon Wedding" mixes joviality and sincerity as easily as the Aditi's family mixes languages -- everyone speaks a crisscrossing jumble of Hindi, Punjabi and English.
		Otherwise, the humor and humanity of "Monsoon Wedding" are in perfect balance -- even if it's almost impossible to keep track of who's who in the extended family.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/monsoonwed.html (488 words)

	Delhi deluge of colour and movement in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding
		A wedding is in many ways the penultimate dramatic premise—a family gathering on a large scale that is invariably accompanied by significant tensions, along with the requisite celebrations.
		Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001) is the most recent contribution to the burgeoning nuptial film genre.
		Monsoon Wedding, as is increasingly the global arthouse fashion, has a multi-strand narrative that interweaves and contrasts a series of relationships.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/18/monsoon_wedding.html (2289 words)

	Planet-Bollywood - Film Review - Monsoon Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Watching Monsoon Wedding will identify an Indian person’s NRI lives with at least, at least, one memory of their life.
		Perhaps one they cherish or one they loath to think of, but certainly Monsoon Wedding affirms the fact that a “raw” real film can be made without having to stoop to run of the mill Bollywood standards, and without leaving the norms of a normal film.
		Monsoon Wedding is indeed a masterpiece from Bollywood and can be classified as one of the most intelligent and entertaining pieces of cinema we’ve seen in recent times.
	planetbollywood.com /Film/MonsoonWedding (1096 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| A viewer's guide to "Monsoon Wedding"
		The fictional Verma family of "Monsoon Wedding" originally lived in the north Indian state of Punjab, but probably joined the mass migration of people across the border to Delhi after the 1947 partition between India and Pakistan.
		Weddings are the most prominent occasion for exhibiting the culture's love of song, dance and elaborate decoration.
		Nair specifically references "Awaara" in "Monsoon Wedding" with her beautiful scene of Dube and Alice under the marigold umbrella in the rain.
	www.salon.com /ent/feature/2002/03/13/monsoon_side (1016 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Monsoon Wedding"
		"Monsoon Wedding" is an ensemble family comedy about the not-entirely-happy chaos in the days leading up to the wedding of the only daughter of an upper-middle-class Delhi family.
		Meanwhile, her father (Naseeruddin Shah) is trying to keep the wedding from emptying the family coffers, and sparring with P.K. (Vijay Raaz), the contractor he's hired to coordinate the ceremony.
		(That's the pleasure of Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown Trilogy" of novels, for instance.) "Monsoon Wedding," though, despite a few sops to "relevance," steadfastly remains at a remove from the muck and mess and harmonious discord of families.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/02/22/monsoon (683 words)

	Monsoon Wedding (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A wedding is even more problematic than a family reunion, because a wedding is a juxtaposition (not to say a joining) of two families.
		Although Monsoon Wedding is all in favor of domestic togetherness, it also knows that some things are even more important than keeping the peace and maintaining appearances.
		Visually, Monsoon Wedding is a feast for the eyes, from the brightly retro credits sequences, to the miles of marigold garlands draped everywhere, to the bride’s elaborately henna-painted hands, to the colorful silk swirling around cousin Sasha (Kamini Khanna) as she spins through a sensuous wedding dance.
	decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1710 (588 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Monsoon Wedding -- Mira Nair - DVD - Wide Screen / DTS
		Especially delicious is the romantic subplot involving one the family's servants (Tilotama Shome) and the wedding planner (Vijay Raaz), who has a penchant for eating marigolds.
		This is basically what Monsoon Wedding is. A fly on the wall type people analysis combined with the modern culturual values of Delhi India.
		Monsoon Wedding excels in delivering the colour of India and the atmosphere created in this pseudo art house type film shot in super 16MM shows the big boys how to do it.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?wrk=5954696&userid=gu5T7ulAp6&pl=1 (1115 words)

	Monsoon Wedding :: Cinesia.ch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 is one of the most successful indian movie outside of its country and won the Golden Lion at the Venise Film Festival in 2001.
		The movie is both the story of a punjabi family in today's india and a love song to the city of New Delhi, explains Mira Nair who, for the anecdote, was president of the jury at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2002.
	www.cinesia.ch /en/reviews/2001/Monsoon_Wedding.php (360 words)

	NYPOST.COM Movie Reviews: A DELHI DELIGHT By JOHATHAN FOREMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Monsoon Wedding" is blessed with wonderful performances, a bracing, clever script by newcomer Sabrina Dhawan, gorgeous photography by Declan Quinn, and the inspired direction of Mira Nair ("Salaam Bombay").
		A perfect antidote to the season's bad-movie blues, "Monsoon Wedding" is also the first film to explore the mostly English-speaking upper-middle class of contemporary India.
		But what makes "Monsoon Wedding" so fresh is Nair's deft balancing of drama, romance and comedy.
	www.nypost.com /movies/39373.htm (381 words)

	Monsoon Wedding Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		The bride of Monsoon Wedding is Aditi Verma (Vashundhara Das).
		Not everything is sweetness and light, though — a more serious situation involving Aditi's cousin, Ria (Shefali Shetty), and her revelation of childhood abuse arises and threatens to throw the whole ceremony into turmoil.
		The colored strips of cloth used to garland the wedding area recall the long bolts of silk hung throughout Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=134205 (818 words)

	Monsoon Wedding
		(In the case of Monsoon Wedding, Nair explores India's caste system, American cultural diffusion, the question of expatriated sons, and the inevitable death of tradition.) Yet Monsoon Wedding is also an exuberant Bollywood-lite soap opera with flat characterizations and badly telegraphed plot points punctuated periodically by bombastic sitar sing-alongs.
		The bride-to-be in an arranged marriage, doll-eyed Aditi (Vasundhara Das) is entangled in an affair with her married ex-boyfriend--endangering her budding relationship with Houston-hailing native son Hemant (Parvin Dabas), returning to Delhi to fulfill his part in the tradition-bound nuptials.
		Her indiscretion flies in the face of her father's (Naseeruddin Shah) fiscally devastating efforts to throw a gala wedding party while serving as one of two old vs. new tensions in Monsoon Wedding.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/monsoonwedding.htm (302 words)

	Monsoon Wedding (2002): Reviews
		In the film's stronger moments, the artist in her definitely seems to be saying that the impulse to retreat into cultural fundamentalism carries dire risks, that much of what is old and traditional needs changing and there are some things about the detested process of globalization that are wonderfully liberating.
		Punjabi weddings are notorious for their lavishness, and Nair's intoxicating soap opera revels in the sights and sounds of this clamorous family ritual.
		Monsoon Wedding is going to be a big art-house hit because it's one of those movies that reassures audiences that people in other countries are just like us.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/monsoonwedding (1164 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - 'Monsoon Wedding' a must-see for all - Saturday \| November 23, 2002
		MARIGOLDS HOLD a particular significance in Hindi culture as was made clear in Mira Nair's film Monsoon Wedding, which was the featured film on 'movie night' at the blues cafe Redbones the Blues Café, 21 Braemar Avenue recently.
		Marigolds are woven into garlands, used to cover various objects, chewed and swallowed with great solemnity and on one truly memorable occasion, used to construct a heart in the 2002 Indian film, a comedy-romance drama which is truly a joy to watch.
		Aditi's cousin Ria (Shefali Shetty) at first comes across as at times spoilt and petty and at others as truly concerned about the mess Aditi is in, until, as the movie evolves, it becomes clear what the source of her pain is, and why she has to hide it.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20021123/ent/ent1.html (687 words)

	Monsoon Wedding (2001)
		While Monsoon Wedding does end happily ever after and the wedding planner is a classic character in all Indian movies, Naseeruddin Shah's character is complex enough to make us wonder about how he will deal with the pedophile in the family.
		The wedding planner Dubey's budding romance with the shy maid, Alice is suitably quiet and small in scope, which complements the ostentation of the main wedding.
		But most importantly, I enjoyed Monsoon Wedding because I appreciate a director who goes all out to entertain the audience, while at the same time, being true to the characters she has created.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Monsoon/Monsoon.html (1109 words)

	Amazon.com: Monsoon Wedding (2001): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While the focus is on the wedding celebration and all the preparation and rituals surrounding it, there are five subplots in the film, all of which are interesting, but it is the acting by the ensemble cast that makes the film so memorable.
		As the wedding date approaches, she again reaches out to her boyfriend, and it works out not to have been such a good idea after all.
		Mira Nair's "Monsoon Wedding," is a fantastic film that gives you a very good idea of how an Indian marriage is conducted, what happens behind the scenes before the actual ceremony takes place.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006AW0I?v=glance (2174 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Monsoon Wedding
		The wedding ceremony gets complicated when the former lover of the the bride-to-be comes back into the picture.
		One involves the wedding planner (who adds a lot of humor to the movie) who falls for the shy, unloved maid of the house and their courtship goes on at the same time as he is trying to put together the wedding.
		The other story involves the cousin and her dark secret of being sexually abused as a child by a close family member who is obviously attempting his same tricks on another young girl.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/monsoonwedding.html (413 words)

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