GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Python Hyena Monsoon Wedding (2001): Dir: Mira Nair / Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Vasundhara Das, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz: Study of culture and tradition within the boundaries of one family as they prepare for a wedding. Naseeruddin Shah plays a father stressed and frustrated over wedding preparations. The yard is beautifully decorated with orange flowers and overwhelming trimmings, before being the subject of many guests in attendance. Shah's daughter is placed in an arranged marriage but she has a fling with an ex-boyfriend during a stormy night. The resolution of this is not only surprising but reasonable. Other characters include a sister who dances for an audience but cannot convince her boyfriend to involve himself. One man is a suspected paedophile. Every character is written in fine detail with fine acting performances by Shah, Vasundhara Das, Lillete Dubey, and Shefali Shetty. Vijay Razz plays a wedding planner who discovers romance when smitten during the rousing festivities. Stylish directing by Mira Nair who also made the steamy Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. Both films regard love and tradition but with this film Nair has a more solid story foundation that isn't based around sex. The film addresses culture and tradition clashed with emotion and deception resulting in a beautifully crafted film well worth attending. Score: 10 / 10

nana_top "My father, I leave the palace of your love to become a stranger to you forever." This is a quote from a Punjabi song, which is sung in the movie "Monsoon Wedding". It expresses a daughter's feelings, before she marries into a new family. The feeling of not knowing what the future might show and uncertainty, are common feelings of a girl, who soon will be the bride in an arranged marriage. At the same time, she might feel, that she will become a stranger to her own family, because she will belong to her husband and in-laws after the wedding. These are some of Aditi Verma's feelings.Monsoon Wedding is a touching, romantic comedy film starring Nassaruddin Shah as Lalit Verma, Vasundhara Das as Aditi Verma, Shefali Shetty as Ria Verma, Parvin Dabas as Hermant Rai and Vijay Raaz as P.K. Dubey. The movie is from 2001 and it's directed by Mira Nair, a successful Indian film director, and the first female recipient of the Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival. Monsoon Wedding is a movie, which tells the story about Lalit Verma, a family man, that try his best, to organize the perfect wedding for his daughter. His daughter, Aditi Verma, can't let go of an old flame, her already married ex-boss, whom she still has an affair with. Still, she accepts her father's offer to make an arranged marriage with Hermant Rai, an Indian man, who lives in Texas. Aditi does not tell her soon-to-be husband anything about her relationship. Soon she is placed in a risky situation, where the family's reputation is at stake. But this is not the only story. The film is also portrays some other stories, that take place in the busy time of the wedding preparations. Underneath the cheerful atmosphere of the big event something disturbing and unacceptable has happened between Ria Verma, the bride's cousin, and Lalit's brother in law. Ria fears to ruin the families' good relation. She is then forced to keep a big secret from the family. Love is the dominant theme in this movie, as the story is mainly based on the wedding, and the relationships Aditi has. Family matters is also an important theme, as we are introduced to all the family members in this enormous family gathering. We hear about the various conflicts, that occur in the family, and what consequences they might bring. The family roles in the Indian society are quite clear in this movie. The younger family members show a lot of respect to the elderly, which is considered as an important courtesy in India. Aditi is forced to live her life, the way her father wishes it like, as it will be shameful for her father and the family, if she chooses not to. "Monsoon Wedding" is set in the modern India, which creates a clash between the still existing traditional way of thinking and the modern westernized culture. Aditi's father is very fond of the old traditional way of doing things. He is so hostile when it comes to modern things, that he even refuses to get a computer. Instead he chose to do all the accounting from the wedding on paper. This is an example, of how some people at that time, were still skeptical about the modern culture. At last, the film is also portraying the class differences in India. The Verma family is extremely wealthy, meanwhile the people in the town are awfully poor. A relationship develops between the Verma family's maid and the wedding planner P.K. Dubey. The viewer is then introduced to a potential relationship between two different economic and social statuses, which might create trouble for both parties.The film is filled with heart-warming, cheerful and humorous moments, but at the same time it portraits serious conflicts and problems, occurring in an Indian society. The music and the colorful scenery from the Indian Punjabi culture, makes the movie eye-catching, artistic and interesting to watch. The good acting by all the actors, makes the viewer empathize with the characters, and their emotions in the movie. The hand-held camera was the element giving the movie the "final touch". As a viewer, you actually feel like you're present at all the events in busy wedding preparation.This is an excellent movie, that makes its audience feel the atmosphere of the Indian culture close up. It's a film worth 9 stars.

johnalive71 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.

vancoolguy This movie is too Indian. Anyone who has had an Indian upbringing will really adore this movie. Overall, it depicts a typical ostentatious Indian wedding with all its nuts and bolts and the fun of the entire family coming together in the occasion. There are other little little things that are so common in an Indian context, like for example, the tense father of the bride Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah) and the way he rebukes Dubey (the event manager), the bonding between the cousins, the "eve-teasing" of Ria when she tries an ice cream, Lalit's affection for Ria even though she is only the daughter of his elder brother is too adorable! I think this is Mira Nair's best work thus far.The movie revolves around the wedding of the only daughter Aditi of an Indian family living in New Delhi. An Indian born US based IIT graduate engineer is chosen as the groom through the traditional Indian custom of arranged marriages. Behind this main theme, there are several subplots, such as Aditi's continuing relationship with her (married) ex-boss, the event manager (more like a wedding planner) Dubey falling in love with the house maid Alice (Tilottoma Shome), Aditi's elder sister's unpleasant experiences with her uncle during her childhood etc. The amazing about this movie though is that all these subplots somehow come to a clean conclusion at the end of the movie. I would highly recommend this movie to all my Indian buddies.