Monsoon Wedding

 (2001)


Monsoon Wedding
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Disgrace to Indian-ness
Jun 21, 2008
richa01 - yahoo.com
As an Indian who identifies very strongly with the conservatism usually associated with Indian culture, I find this movie to be most offensive. I feel that the theme of the movie is that all Indians are hypocrites who claim to be... Full review
BORING IN BEGINING, confused throughout all.
Mar 21, 2008
shymetaphor - yahoo.com
All, i really have to say about it was that in the beinging it was very boring, i was looking forward into watching it, but it left me kinda mad. The visual affects were 'okay' but not very good, the story... Full review
Another Masaala movie
Mar 02, 2008
parabjit - yahoo.com
Unless India has changed dramatically from 10 yrs ago; i found this film shocking. this movie doesnt represent the North Indian culture. I am not saying that Indian society doesnt have any issues. But overexaggeration and masalla movie is not a... Full review
A Dreary Product Of Excellent Marketing
Mar 02, 2008
evolution153 - yahoo.com
Bollywood films and the so called haughty crossover Indin films will always be inferior to Hollywood. They have tried to match Hollywood, but failed miserabely. It's a product of smart marketing, pompous crtic reviews, haughty culture, and a fashion statement. As... Full review
Shoddy Wine In A Fake Luxurious Bottle
Mar 02, 2008
ravishing121rude - yahoo.com
Masala film presented as snooty intelligent film. Monsoon wedding is a shoddy whisky put in a phoney Blue Label bottle. People who have good knowledge of camera work and other aspects of filmmaking will know it's a low-grade film. It uses... Full review
AN INSIDE LOOK AT LIFE IN INDIA
Nov 11, 2007
claygirlfromtennessee - yahoo.com
I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE VERY MUCH, I THOUGHT DUBEY WAS FUNNY AND INDUSTRIOUS BUT HE HAD A KIND HEART AND GOOD PERSON. THE OTHER CHARACTERS WERE GOOD AND MEMORABLE. I THOUGHT THE GIRL BEING MOLESTED WAS SAD BUT THE UNCLE... Full review
Fashion Statement
Aug 15, 2007
abraham366 - yahoo.com
What can I say about a film that was declared a super hit by critics, months before its release. You can imagine the consistency and authenticity of the critics by this. Monsoon Wedding is a show-off, a fashion statement, a sham,... Full review
Snobbism Sells
Aug 15, 2007
edge_adams - yahoo.com
Monsoon Wedding makes a complete mockery of intellectual cinema. It's evenly melodramatic as other Bollywood films. It was campaigned as a luxury society film, which is utter nonsense anyway. The people, who praised it, did it just out of status symbol.... Full review
Pathetic
Aug 15, 2007
bet_thegame - yahoo.com
I saw it and the first thing came to mind was.... PATHETIC. The people who have given A grade have no knowledge of good cinema. A dreadful movie.... Full review
Sadly Not Cool
Aug 15, 2007
red_bishop125 - yahoo.com
Monsoon Wedding is a different film. It should be lauded for breaking the typecast genre. I like watching different kinds of films, but being different doesn't always have to be excellent and similarly making stereotyped films aren't always good. This is... Full review

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| Oct 20, 2009
RopeofSilicon
To the contrary, Monsoon Wedding is a lively, comedic, romantic, dramatic and emotionally gifted film....as for others, I think it is a rather safe bet most people will like this movie with many downright loving it..... ... Full Review
| Oct 18, 2009
DVD Town
Rajat Kapoor are perfect for their characters.....On the surface, "Monsoon Wedding" might have a straightforward storyline.....in 1988, a gritty film about day-to-day life growing up in the streets of Bombay.....Shefali Shetty gives a brilliant and convincing performance as the survivor of sexual abuse.....The hilarious cell phone scene in which PK Dubey climbs up the tent was improvised on the spot by Raaz and shot in one take..... ... Full Review
| Oct 09, 2009
Film.com
Monsoon Wedding Well Worth Attending....Monsoon Wedding is dedicated to preserving a particular slice of time in the culture of the ever-changing India....The film is a brilliant clash of genre and cultures, funny and tumultuous, touching and exotic.....though it is comprised of a huge and talented cast who make up the multi-storied film, director Mira Nair juggles the varied stories with ease.....Where Rachel Getting Married is an example of the bastardization of Indian culture in America, Monsoon Wedding ... Full Review
| Jan 09, 2009
Times Now.tv, India
With a lot of interesting projects lined up Hooda is hopeful that this year would be be an eventful one. Naomi is friendly and very cool: Randeep Hooda Box-Office success has so far eluded Hooda who is known to play off-beat characters. ... Full Review
| Aug 19, 2008
Urban Cinefile
The film pushes many buttons on the emotional panel, from intense drama to intense joy, from lust to love and from family to intense privacy. These are the elements that give the film a really universal language of communication not to mention the entirely successful mix of English and Hindi, flowing naturally from character and circumstance. ... Full Review

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Monsoon Wedding had the perfect script: Dalrymple
dnaindia.com – 2009-11-05
Though Dalrymple is not familiar with the movie world, he surely does know a thing or two about scripts.Talking about the 'perfect script', he says, " Monsoon Wedding was astonishing. ... Full Article

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This week's Blu-ray releases
digitalhome.ca – 2009-10-20
Digital Home's top pick on Blu-ray this week is "Monsoon Wedding", a 2001 comedy film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi. ... Full Article

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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #12
ropeofsilicon.com – 2009-10-11
Okay, so I didn't watch only these two movies, but I have a few movies I am saving for actual reviews including the new Natural Born Killers Blu-ray and Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding which hits Criterion Blu-ray on October 20. ... Full Article

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Vishal's score for Mira's Broadway musical
indiatimes.com – 2009-09-11
MEENA IYER , TNN 11 September 2009, 12:00am IST In the summer of 2000 Mira Nair shot Monsoon Wedding. A decade later, this internationally acclaimed Punjabi wedding flick will make it as a Broadway musical. ... Full Article

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Perfect mishmash of run-of-the-mill ideas
dnaindia.com – 2009-07-24
Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:00 IST There is only one good reason to see this NRI, wannabe crossover, influenced by Monsoon Wedding and Bride & Prejudice with a dose of 'Meet The Fockers' -- the onscreen dynamics between Anupam Kher... ... Full Article

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Fly girl: Pop culture continues to embrace Earhart
courier-journal.com – 2009-05-31
There's something about Amelia Earhart. More than seven decades after she disappeared without a trace in the South Pacific on her flight around the world, Earhart remains the most famous female aviator in history, a timeless heroine and an inspiration... ... Full Article

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biraja
Report Violation biraja (389 days ago)
In Monsoon Wedding, frayed nerves prevail as we meet the Vermas, a respectable, upper-middle class Punjabi family living in Delhi, India. Lalit Vermas (Naseeruddin Shah), barks orders and argues with family members as he prepares for the wedding of his daughter. We get a great understanding of the Punjabi extended family clan as relatives of the Vermas arrive several days before the arranged wedding of their Westernized daughter, Aditi (Vasundhara Das). It is a bit difficult at first to sort out all of the family relationships and discern the cousins from the siblings from the in-laws - and the polysyllabic names offer no help - but all begins to fall in place and the infectious script and dialogue mesmerizes. For better rview visit http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=3448
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