Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Namra Syed Hussain Monsoon Wedding- 2001 Director: Mira NairMonsoon Wedding directed by Mira Nair is a film about an India family marriage. This film is one of the most effective examples of an India family ever put on screen. It displays events ranging form delightful to serious and appalling situations. You see family parties, drama, lots of music and dancing and that one creepy person in the family whom women of the family are afraid of! The great film-making and the use of hand held captures camera scenes is an important setting in the movie.With combinations of warmth and laughter, music and dance, romance and serious problems, Director Mira Nair has made this movie a family entertainment

Jackson Booth-Millard There was a time when this was so highly recommended it used to have to have a spot in the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die book, so I thought it had to be good, so of course I thought I'd find out, from director Mira Nair (Kama Sutra: A Story of Love). Basically the story is set in an upper-class part of India, where the Delhi-based Verma family are excited and getting ready for the arranged marriage of daughter Aditi (Vasundhara Das) to Houston based Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas). Aditi's father Lalit (Naseeruddin Shah) is having some disagreements and squabbles with slacker wedding contractor Parabatlal Kanhaiyalal 'P.K.' Dubey (Vijay Raaz) who is running way behind schedule. Niece Ria (Shefali Shetty) is thinking about going to America to take up a new profession to get away from the abuse from her uncle, and Lalit's wife Pimmi (Lillete Dubey) has taken up smoking in the bathroom. Aditi's brother Varun (Ishaan Nair) longs to be a chef and not obeying the traditions of his religion, including becoming homosexual, and one the youngest relative Ayesha (Neha Dubey) is flirting with the bride's cousin Rahul Chadha (Randeep Hooda) from Melbourne. While all the final preparations are being made, and the guests start arriving from all over India, Australia and America, Aditi is nervous since she has been having an affair with her married ex-boss Vikram Mehta (Sameer Arya). She does get to know Hemant better before they are due to get married, but she is worried she will be disloyal to him, and she does tell him the truth before the wedding, which would probably explain their faces at the end. I was really intrigued with he subplot story of contractor P.K. falling in love with family maid Alice (Tillotama Shome), and I was really happy when they got married in the end too. Also starring Kulbhushan Kharbanda as C.L. Chadha, Kamini Khanna as Shashi Chadha, Rajat Kapoor as Tej Puri and Roshan Seth as Mohan Rai. Made with the help of both Bollywood and Hollywood, it is a likable film with a great ensemble cast, wonderful costumes, brilliant use of colours, and great Indian music for dances and stuff, all in all a very watchable comedy drama. It was nominated the BAFTA for Best Film not in the English Language, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, there was more English than Hindi? It was number 74 on The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers. Very good!

info-12388 So she's gone off with her lover for one last tryst, then, in a panic, drives off in his car.And nothing happens? The police don't follow her home? The lover doesn't come to get his car back? The family never finds out? Lovely film, but that one plot point made me wonder more than a little.I was also thrown a bit by the multitude of characters at the very start: so many plots, so few of them really well developed. The son (I gather by a previous marriage?) that the father always calls "idiot". The lightly discussed child abuse by the scion of the wealthy side of the family. The father's having to turn to his golfing buddies for cash to pay for this extravaganza. Couple that with the characters themselves never really all that well defined, and it's mass confusion for the first hour. Finally it all gets sorted out, and we can move on to the wedding, but it still felt to sketchy: the overly understanding groom, the final-frame "happily ever after", the wedding organizer's quickie wedding as well... it just felt thrown together.

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.