
A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organiz... (Full plot summary below)
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A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organization, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and even a new romance for the wedding planner Dubey with the housemaid Alice...
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| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealThe film is a joyful glimpse into a world brimming with song and spirit. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonNair stuffs the film with dancing, henna, ornamentation, and group song, but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineThis is breathtakingly good filmmaking -- thoroughly entertaining, deeply moving, warmly funny and profoundly evocative. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrThe film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonPulsates with unforgettable characters and only-in-Delhi comedic situations. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonMonsoon Wedding does what Altman's own The Wedding could not: It allows us to celebrate a questionably blessed occasion without feeling embarrassed or complicit in some traditional scam. |
| OregonianKim MorganGives just enough to forgive any of its initial flaws and eventually grows on you. |
| Blunt ReviewEmily BluntThe people are so real, the emotions so true. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyMira Nair's most colorful and most fully realized film |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOne of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature. |