Monsoon Wedding
Wednesday, November 13
7 PM
NR | Romance/Comedy | 1h 54m
2001 | India/France/Italy/USA
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches—Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she’s never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father’s hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck—as well as buried family secrets. But Nair’s celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
Languages: Hindi, Punjabi, English
Director: Mira Nair
Writer: Sabrina Dhawan
Part of the Cinema Essentials film series, presented in collaboration with the Cinema & Television Arts department.