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| Monsoon Wedding | 
 enlarge | Director: Mira Nair
Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tillotama Shome
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  212 reviews
Sales Rank: 2890
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Hindi (Original Language), Punjabi (Original Language), Urdu (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 114
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD22284D
ISBN: 0783271301
UPC: 025192228421
EAN: 9780783271309
ASIN: B00006AW0I
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: September 24, 2002
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 Cool Music, but a bit slow February 7, 2008
Had some of the best bollywood music i have heard. Chunari Chunari is the BEST Indian Pop Song!!!.. I also loved the sub-plots. Makes me want to get caught in a monsoon in India and be washed away by the rain. A bit slow moving, however. The music however, is the best! One of my favorite Bollywood films!
 Fun. January 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, 2001)
Reading descriptions of Monsoon Wedding for the past six years, I've been pretty solidly convinced that it's your basic chick flick about all the things that go wrong when planning a wedding-- a light, breezy comedy, the Indian cousin of Meet the Fockers. I couldn't have been more wrong (and I can't be happier about that-- have you SEEN Meet the Fockers?).
Nair (Salaam Bombay!) does, in fact, give us a tale of a wedding where everything that can go wrong, does, but there's so much more to it. Aditi (Vasundhara Das), the soon-to-be blushing bride, used to date her boss, and the two of them still share feelings. The wedding planner, P. K. Dubey (Vijay Raaz), is in love with Alice (Tilotama Shome, in her first screen appearance), the family's maid. The groom, Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas), is-- gasp!-- American. Aditi's mother Pimmi (Lillette Dubey-- no relation, of course, to P. K.) can't seem to quit smoking, and the stress of the upcoming nuptials isn't helping. Aditi's cousin Ayesha (Neha Dubey-- again, no relation etc.), just turned seventeen, is experimenting with her new-found ability to captivate men, and has her heart set on a distant Australian cousin. Aditi's older sister Ria (Shefali Shetty) is desperate to break out of the traditional Indian system, and wants to go back to America with Hemant's family so she can go to school there.
And I haven't even touched on the main shocker, which would be a vast plot spoiler.
Bollywood has become known, in the past few decades, for big, no-holds-barred three-hour-long musical blockbusters. Monsoon Wedding is a far more understated and subtle flick than what we Americans get to see of the Indian film scene, but the influence of the big blockbuster is writ large here. Everything's bigger than life. Dubey starts out as almost a caricature, the sleazy slacker-type with the oiled hair and the pencil-thin mustache, but as the film goes on, he is revealed to be much more. And that is often the case with these characters (Aditi herself being the exception; we're made aware of her main conflict in the opening scene). That said, there's nothing here that's sprung on the viewer out of nowhere; everything is carefully constructed from the outset. On the downside, the film does have a few pacing problems at the beginning, but that's somewhat forgivable; Nair has a lot to set up here.
Good stuff. Well worth seeking out. ***
 So authentic! January 18, 2008
If you love foreign films you gotta have this one! Beautiful costumes, fantastic music and a story line that will keep you intrigued!
Great Bollywood! January 13, 2008
Likable characters, some good Bollywood musical numbers, and a mostly happy resolution. What more can you ask for?!
A continuous reminder of a wonderfuil time December 26, 2007
When I visited India it was to attend a wedding, and while each one has its own flavor, this is a great reminder of such a wonderful land, people and time of my visit. Fun movie and little peak into the complex wonder of that culture.
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