Monsoon Wedding

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Monsoon Wedding
Monsoon Wedding poster.jpg
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
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography Declan Quinn
Editing by Allyson C. Johnson
Studio Mirabai Films
Distributed by USA Films
Release date(s) August 30, 2001
(première at Venice)
Running time 114 min
Language English, Hindi, Punjabi
Budget US$ 1,200,000 [1]
Box office US$ 30,787,356 [2]

Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi 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.[3] Monsoon Wedding earned just above $30 million at the box office.[2] 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.[4] The film won the Golden Lion award and received a Golden Globe Award nomination. A musical based on the film is currently in development and is scheduled to premiere on Broadway in April of 2014.[5]

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Plot [edit]

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 she has known for only a few weeks (Parvin Dabas as Hemant Rai). As so often happens in the Punjabi culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times 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.

It is 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 a current affair. 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, and lots of music.

Cast [edit]

Family tree [edit]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Shashi Chadha
 
 
 
 C.L. Chadha
 
 Pimmi Verma
 
 
 
 Lalit Verma
 
 Lalit’s deceased brother
 
 
 
 Veema Verma
 
 Uday Verma
 
 
 
 Sona Verma
 
 Vijaya Puri
 
 
 
 Tej Puri
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Umang Chadha Rahul Chadha Hemant Rai
 
 Aditi Verma Varun Verma Ria Verma Ayesha Verma Aliya Verma
 

Soundtrack [edit]

The soundtrack includes a qawwali by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a ghazal by Farida Khanum, a Punjabi song by Sukhwinder Singh, an old Indian song by Rafi, a folk dance song. The film includes an Urdu ghazal, Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo (Don't Be So Stubborn About Leaving Today) sung by Pakistani artist Farida Khanum.

All music composed by Mychael Danna (except where listed).

No. Title Music Length
1. "Feels Like Rain"     0:28
2. "oh kanjara ve [you rascal]" (Performed by Sukhwinder Singh) Sukhwinder Singh 5:11
3. "Baraat"     2:13
4. "Aaj Mausam Bada Beimann Hai (*) [Today The Weather Plays Tricks On Me]" (Performed by Mohammed Rafi) Laxmikant-Pyarelal (*) 3:20
5. "Your Good Name"     3:38
6. "Delhi.com"     1:41
7. "Fuse Box"     2:31
8. "Mehndi / Madhorama Pencha" (Performed by Madan Bala Sindhu)   3:26
9. "Banished"     0:52
10. "Good Indian Girls"     3:41
11. "Fabric / Aaja Savariya" (Performed by MIDIval Punditz)   3:01
12. "Allah Hoo" (Performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)   4:39
13. "Hold Me, I'm Falling"     2:57
14. "Love and Marigolds"     2:45
15. "Chunari Chunari (**)" (Performed by Abhijeet and Anuradha Sriram) Anu Malik (**) 4:08
16. "Aaja Nachle" (Performed by Bally Sagoo feat. Hans Raj Hans) Bally Sagoo 3:40
17. "Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa - (Zimpala remix)"     4:56
18. "Fuse Box - Alex Kid's Dub Remix"     6:14
19. "Fuse Box - Julio Black Remix"     3:03
  • (*) Originally featured in the Hindi film Loafer (1973)
  • (**) Originally featured in the Hindi film Biwi No.1 (1999)

Awards [edit]

The movie won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Mira Nair was the second Indian (after Satyajit Ray for Aparajito) to receive this honour.

Won [edit]

Nominated [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2002/MONSN.php budget
  2. ^ a b "Monsoon Wedding". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 June 2011. 
  3. ^ Muir, John Kenneth (2006). Mercy in her eyes: the films of Mira Nair. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 166–7. ISBN 1-55783-649-3. 
  4. ^ Monsoon Wedding Company Credits
  5. ^ Garima Sharma (Dec 12, 2012). "Monsoon Wedding to make Broadway debut in April 2014". Retrieved 24 February 2013. 

External links [edit]

Films directed by Mira Nair
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
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