Monsoon Wedding: A Marigold Tapestry
By October 19, 2009
So many worlds stream in from every direction in Monsoon Wedding that it comes to seem as if the whole globe is converging on a single family home in New Delhi: relatives from Read more »
- India
- 2001
- 114 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- Hindi, Punjabi, English
- Spine #489
SYNOPSIS: Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches—Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she’s never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father’s hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck—as well as buried family secrets. But Nair’s celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Lalit Verma | Naseeruddin Shah |
| Pimmi Verma | Lillete Dubey |
| Ria Verma | Shefali Shetty |
| Parabatlal Kanhaiyalal “P. K.” Dubey | Vijay Raaz |
| Alice | Tillotama Shome |
| Aditi Verma | Vasundhara Das |
| Hemant Rai | Parvin Dabas |
Credits
| Director | Mira Nair |
| Producers | Caroline Baron and Mira Nair |
| Screenplay | Sabrina Dhawan |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Executive producers | Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan |
| Associate producer | Robyn Aronstam |
| Editing | Allyson C. Johnson |
| Production design | Stephanie Carroll |
| Costume design | Arjun Bhasin |
| Line producers | Shernaz Italia and Freny Khodaiji |
| Music | Mychael Danna |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of photography Declan Quinn (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring Nair
- Nair’s short documentaries So Far from India (1983), India Cabaret (1985), and The Laughing Club of India (2001), featuring video introductions by the director
- Nair’s short fiction films The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993), 11’09"01—September 11 (Segment: “India”) (2002), Migration (2007), and How Can It Be? (2008), featuring video introductions by the director
- New video interview with actor Naseeruddin Shah, conducted by Nair
- New video interviews with Quinn and production designer Stephanie Carroll
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer
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Press Notes
Press Notes: Monsoon Wedding
October 23, 2009
“Mira Nair’s joyous movie about a wedding in Delhi . . . is both her most popular film and her best. It’s her Rules of the Game, an ensemble masterpiece,” writes Michael Wilmington in a review Read more »
