Monsoon Wedding (2001)

Too much of everything

That was an excellent one.

Blistering performances.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The title of the movie is a refection of the continent of it. The Indian family is getting ready for a big event: the wedding. The marriage is arranged, which is one of the oldest Indian traditions. Still let's not forget that it's going on in modern India and the director is Mira Nair. For me the name of this director is a guarantee that there will be not much simplicity in the movie. After watching only five minutes of this movie I realized that it did not belong in the category of predictable movies. There are quite a few lines which are continuously intertwining together and held my attention till the very end. If I try to go into details I can say that the movie is about a bride who is about to get married but is still in love with a married man, or it's about a father who wants to make a beautiful wedding for his daughter but eventually will find himself torn between the feeling of great debt to one of the members of his family and the fact of revealed child abuse. Another direction of the movie could be about the wedding planer who finally finds someone special for himself. Looking at all these different scenarios made me unable to pinpoint the main one. Also there are many elements of tragedy and comedy going together which makes the movie especially interesting. In addition the movie is beautifully filmed; I liked the action and many colorful elements and details in it. Without any doubt I can say that "Monsoon Wedding" is one of my favorites.

Hands down this is my favorite movie. (With My Name is Kahn in second place). My mom got this movie for me. I saw it the first time and realized that i had friends like that. The movie is definitely one every teenage kid should see. But the movie overall is great because its just about a four friends who have no experience with the "real world" before the wedding They realize that the wedding host could of been them and they respect that. In my opinion the point of the movie was not to have you think of when you were about to wed and your good friends but to think of what you have now, and what you do with it. In the end the film tells us what happens to each and how each kind of go their separate ways. (Such as the last scene of the movie). This is definitely a movie to not only rent but buy. I tip my hat to the Indian filmmakers.

What fun! A delightful and frothy feel-good film directed by a Bollywood outsider which actually succeeds at something so many Hindi films fail at. The acting is uniformly good, and the film feels like an authentic portrayal of upper middle class Delhi. My favorite segment was the blossoming romance between the maid and the wedding planner. The music is loud and boisterous and adds to the film's energy. The only blemish is the nasty subplot involving (MINOR SPOILERS) child abuse. It may be a relevant issue but has no place in what is essentially a light-hearted concoction.Overall 7/10

ossia: It Never Rains Put It Pours. This multi-thread wedding romance is a rich feast of culture and drama, fun and tragedy. Even if the thought of a big Indian party as the basis for a film leaves you cold, you can't help but sucked into the stresses and revelations that such an event inevitably churns up.Mira Nair handles the whole melange expertly. The acting is very good - the one performance I was nonplussed by at the beginning, Vijay Raaz's PK Dubey, turns out to be an affecting comic and romantic heart of the film. Beside him is the decorous housemaid of Tillotama Shome, the bride Aditi (glowing Vasundhara Das) and her parents, two actors who I would not be surprised to discover are Indian acting aristocracy, Naseeruddin Shah and Lillete Dubey. Not sure about eating marigolds though. 8/10