Monsoon Wedding (DVD) Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair, was released in 2001. Being a huge bollywood fan,i should have probably watched this long time back, but somehow i never did, till yesterday ofcourse. I love Mira nair's work as a director,from Salaam bombay which i saw a couple of months back to the beautifully made The Namesake which i saw as ...  Read the complete review

?Monsoon Wedding? was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion Award at Venice when it came out, and some critics have raved about it. Others (notably Variety magazine) claimed another movie should have won the award. Whatever, it is a gem of a movie. Perhaps not the most memorable, and not one that I would pick out as a long-term ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Delhi is the capital of india.It is also a city with a very large concentration of punjabis.Due to political reasons punjabis are spread throughout the world.The film 'Monsoon Wedding' is about a typical punjabi wedding in the capital.There are guests from all over the english-speaking world.There are preparations to be made.At the helm of ...  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. ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Monsoon Wedding is doing far better at the box office than anyone dared hope for. Last weekend the film increased its box office share after being on release for about four weeks- it is now quite rightly sitting pretty in the UK Top Ten. Positive word of mouth has meant that the film is gaining more than a cult following. The film won the Golden ...  Read the complete review