Monsoon Wedding
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| Directed by | Mira Nair |
| Produced by |
Caroline Baron Mira Nair |
| Written by | Sabrina Dhawan |
| Starring |
Naseeruddin Shah Lillete Dubey Shefali Shah Vasundhara Das Vijay Raaz Tillotama Shome Ram Kapoor Jas Arora |
| Music by | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Edited by | Allyson C. Johnson |
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| Distributed by | USA Films |
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Release date
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30 August 2001 (première at Venice) 30 November 2001 (Worldwide) |
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Running time
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114 min |
| Country | United States India |
| Language | English, Punjabi, Hindi |
| Budget | US$1.2 million |
| Box office | US$30.8 million |
Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi Hindu wedding in Delhi. Writer Sabrina Dhawan wrote the first draft of the screenplay in a week while she was at Columbia University's MFA film program.Monsoon Wedding earned just above $30 million at the box office. Although it is set entirely in New Delhi, the film was an international co-production between companies in India, the United States, Italy, France, and Germany.
The film won the Golden Lion award and received a Golden Globe Award nomination. A musical based on the film was in development and was premiered on Broadway in April 2014. The film was premiered in the Marché du Film section of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
The film's central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding for his daughter, Aditi (Vasundhara Das), for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man, Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas), she has known for only a few weeks. As so often happens in the Punjabi culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times in each generation, the extended family comes together from all corners of the globe, including India, Australia, Oman, and the United States, bringing its emotional baggage along.
The movie focuses on the struggle of Pimmi and Lalit for their daughter's wedding, with help from Pimmi's sister Shashi and her husband CJ. Tej Puri (Rajat Kapoor), Lalit's wealthy brother-in-law, arrives. Lalit is grateful to Tej for helping the family to start a new life after the Partition of India left them penniless. Now Tej offers to pay for Aditi's cousin, Ria Verma (Shefali Shah) to attend university in the U.S.. But Ria, whom Lalit took in along with her mother after her father died, stays away from Tej and grows concerned when he appears to be flirting with a younger relative, ten-year-old Aliya.
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