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 Shetty Vijay Raaz Tilotama Shome Vasundhara Das |
| Music by | Mychael Danna Sukhwinder Singh |
| Distributed by | Mirabai Films, Inc. (USA) |
| Release date(s) |  30 August 2001 (premiere at Venice Film Festival) 4 January 2002 22 February 2002 (LA and NYC) 1 March 2002 |
| Running time | 114 min |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | 7,000,000 (INR) |
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Monsoon Wedding (Hindi: पाणिग्रहण मॉनसून) is an award-winning 2001 film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts various 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.[citation needed] Monsoon Wedding earned over $20 million at the box office, and has been called the highest-grossing Indian film ever.[citation needed] Although it is set entirely in New Delhi, it was an international co-production between companies in India, the United States, Italy, France and Germany.[1]
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[edit] Plot
The film's central story concerns a father (Naseeruddin Shah) who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic and expensive wedding for his daughter, for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man she has never met. The bride Aditi (Vasundhara Das), is nervous as she has been having an affair with her married ex-boss Vikram (Sameer Arya). The film also includes several subplots. Ria (Shefali Shetty), cousin of the bride, has been abused by a trusted elderly friend of the family some years ago and steps in to prevent his abusing another young girl in the family. Wedding contractor P. K. Dubey (Vijay Raaz) falls in love with the family's maid, Alice (Tilotama Shome). The bride's brother, Varun, struggles with his family's disapproval of his longing to be a chef, a not-very highly regarded career in the Indian middle class. Ayesha, a young nymphette, flirts with Melbourne-returned cousin Rahul.
[edit] Music
The film's soundtrack includes a qawalli from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a ghazal by Farida Khanum, a modern song by Sukhwinder, an old Indian song by Rafi, a folk dance song, and a variety of other little pieces. The film includes the song "Aaj Mausam Bada Be-Imaan Hai" by Mohammed Rafi (originally from the 1973 Bollywood movie Loafer), and an Urdu ghazal, "Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo" ("Don't Be So Stubborn About Leaving Today"), sung by Pakistani artist Farida Khanum.
[edit] Awards
The movie won the Golden Lion, the highest prize at the biennial Venice Film Festival. Mira Nair was the first woman to win this award, and the second Indian (after Satyajit Ray for Aparajito). The film was also nominated for the award for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes.
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Feature Films: Salaam Bombay! • Mississippi Masala • The Perez Family • Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love • Monsoon Wedding • Hysterical Blindness • 11'9'01 September 11 • Vanity Fair • The Namesake • Gangsta M.D. • Shantaram
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