Monsoon Wedding (DVD)

Monsoon Wedding is an exceptionally vibrant film filled with emotion, dance, colour and music. It is directed by Mira Nair who has been critically acclaimed for "Salaam Bombay" and slated for an apparently tedious version of the "Kama Sutra". This return to form includes an ensemble cast almost entirely made up of excellent actors who keep us laughing and crying all the way through the film. Like the recent offerings of "Gosford Park", "Ocean's Eleven", "Monsoon Wedding" proves that the use of the ensemble has been long underused - although interesting "Monsoon Wedding" is the only offering from the East ...  Read the complete review

It was only by chance that I saw Monsoon Wedding, having missed it quite a few times, and forgotten it was an option. It was only because Mrs Lazenby and I were driving past the Trafford Centre and hadn't eaten dinner that we decided to stop off, and then wondered what was on. In these days of DVD and home cinema systems, missing a movie isn't quite the disaster it once was, but nevertheless, a film should be seen at the cinema if at all possible. Given some of the films I have managed to turn out for so far in 2002, the idea of missing Monsoon Wedding seems horrific. Mira Nair's films ('Salaam Bombay', 'The Perez Family') are ...  Read the complete review

The mainstream success of Monsoon Wedding in the UK, followed a couple of years later by Bride and Prejudice, was heralded as the coming of age of the Indian sub-continent's film industry - or Bollywood as it tends to be known. While the commercial success of such an ambitious and unusual film is certainly to be applauded, I have certain concerns about the publicity surrounding the film, which I shall make clear. Anyway. The film does exactly what is says on the tin. It recounts the events surrounding a wedding during Monsoon season in Delhi. According to much of the press coverage, it's also a chronicle of the friction between India's traditional values and ...  Read the complete review

Monsoon wedding is a movie in Hindi with English subtitles from acclaimed director Mira Nair. Her 1988 movie Salaam Bombay is probably the movie she is most noted for which received critical acclaim across the board and seemed to mark great things to come but since then things have gone a little quiet. That is not to say that Mira herself hasn't been doing much, but rather that her other movies haven't been anywhere near as good as the latter, her romantic adaptation of the Kama Sutra springing to mind as being one of her most shall we say...’misjudged’. With Monsoon Wedding though Mira Nair looks again to be a name which will be on the lips of the ...  Read the complete review

When you think of Indian cinema, you immediately think of Bollywood films, generally set in a make-believe world of mythology and song and dance routines. Monsoon Wedding however, a film by Mira Nair, is an Indian film about the real modern India, a wedding taking place in an upper middle class Indian family living on the outskirts of New Dehli. The film starts four days before the arranged marriage of Aditi Verma to an Indian computer programmer who lives in America. We see the various extended members of the Verma family accumulating in preparation, such as Aditi's older and unmarried cousin Ria, another cousin who's come from Australia, and various ...  Read the complete review