Monsoon Wedding
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| Monsoon Wedding | |
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| Image:Monsoon Wedding film.jpg | |
| Directed by | Mira Nair |
| Produced by | Caroline Baron, Mira Nair |
| Written by | Sabrina Dhawan |
| Starring | Naseeruddin Shah Lillete Dubey Shefali Shah Vijay Raaz Tilotama Shome Vasundhara Das |
| Music by | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Editing by | Allyson C. Johnson |
| Distributed by | Mirabai Films, Inc. (USA) |
| Release date(s) | Image:Flag of Italy.svg 30 August 2001 (premiere at Venice Film Festival) Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 4 January, 2002 Image:Flag of the United States.svg 22 February, 2002 (LA and NYC) Image:Flag of Canada.svg 1 March, 2002 |
| Running time | 114 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | 7,000,000 (INR) |
| IMDb profile | |
Monsoon Wedding (Hindi: पाणिग्रहण मॉनसून) is an award-winning 2001 film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts various romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi.
Writer Sabrina Dhawan wrote the first draft of the screenplay in a week while she was at Columbia University's MFA film program.[citation needed] Monsoon Wedding earned over $20 million at the box office.[citation needed] Although it is set entirely in New Delhi, the film was an international co-production between companies in India, the United States, Italy, France and Germany.[1]
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[edit] Plot
The film's central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic and expensive wedding for his daughter, for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man she has only known for a few weeks. The bride Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das), is nervous as she has been having an affair with her married ex-boss Vikram (Sameer Arya). The film also includes several subplots. Ria Verma (Shefali Shetty), cousin of the bride, has been abused by her uncle, Lalit's brother-in-law and the family's patriarch, some years ago and steps in to prevent his abusing another young girl in the family. Wedding contractor P. K. Dubey (Vijay Raaz) falls in love with the family's maid, Alice (Tilotama Shome). The bride's brother, Varun, struggles with his family's disapproval of his longing to be a chef. He also displays some feminine characteristics, although it is not made clear whether he is indeed a homosexual. Ayesha, the youngest marriageable relative of the bride, flirts with cousin Rahul who has just returned from Melbourne.
[edit] Music
The film's soundtrack includes a qawwali by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a ghazal by Farida Khanum, a modern song by Sukhwinder, an old Indian song by Rafi, a folk dance song, and a variety of other little pieces. The film includes the song "Aaj Mausam Bada Be-Imaan Hai" by Mohammed Rafi (originally from the 1973 Bollywood movie Loafer), and an Urdu ghazal, "Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo" ("Don't Be So Stubborn About Leaving Today"), sung by Pakistani artist Farida Khanum.
[edit] Awards
The movie won the Golden Lion, the highest prize at the Venice Film Festival. Mira Nair was the first woman to win this award, and the second Indian (after Satyajit Ray for Aparajito). The film was also nominated for the award for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes.
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| Preceded by The Circle | Golden Lion winner 2001 | Succeeded by The Magdalene Sisters |
Mira Nair | |
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| Directed films | Salaam Bombay! (1988) • Mississippi Masala (1991) • The Perez Family (1995) • Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) • My Own Country (1998) • Monsoon Wedding (2001) • Hysterical Blindness (2002) • 11'9'01 September 11 (Section 'India') (2002) • Vanity Fair (2004) • The Namesake (2007) • Shantaram |
| Documentaries | Jama Masjid Street Journal (1979) • So Far from India (1982) • India Cabaret (1985) • Children of a Desired Sex (1987) • The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993) • My Own Country (1998) • The Laughing Club of India (1999) |
| Productions | Still, the Children Are Here (2004) • Blood Brothers (2007) • Gangsta M.D. |
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