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Release Date: 2001 Cast: Tillotama Shome, Natasha Rastogi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kemaya Kidwai, Kamini Khanna, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Rajat Kapoor, Vijay Raaz, Randeep Hooda, Shefali Shah, Vasundhara Das, Lillete Dubey ...MORE
Cast: Tillotama Shome, Natasha Rastogi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kemaya Kidwai, Kamini Khanna, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Rajat Kapoor, Vijay Raaz, Randeep Hooda, Shefali Shah, Vasundhara Das, Lillete Dubey, Parvin Dabas, Soni Razdan, Ishaan Nair, Naseeruddin Shah, Neha Dubey, Pankaj Jha ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Indie, World cinema, Family Drama, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Domestic Comedy, Art film 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. 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... MORE
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. 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 is currently in development and is scheduled to premiere on Broadway in 2011.
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, 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 whole family comes together from all corners of the globe including India, Australia, Oman and LESS
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