Monsoon Wedding

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 Universitys MFA film program. Monsoon Wedding earned just abovemillion at the box office. Although it is set entirely in New Delhi, the film was an international coproduction between companies in India, the United States, Italy, France, and Germany.

The films 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 daughters wedding, with help from Pimmis sister Shashi and her husband CJ. Tej Puri Rajat Kapoor, Lalits wealthy brotherinlaw, 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 Aditis 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, tenyearold Aliya. ........

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