| 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 Shah Vijay Raaz Tillotama Shome Vasundhara Das |
| Music by | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Editing by | Allyson C. Mira Nair (born October 15 1957 at Rourkela, India) is an India -born New York -based Film director Mira Nair (born October 15 1957 at Rourkela, India) is an India -born New York -based Film director Sabrina Dhawan is an England -born Indian Screenwriter, most well known for her Postmodern depiction of India in Monsoon Wedding Naseeruddin Shah aka Nasiruddin Shah (नसीरुद्दीन शाह (b Lilette Dubey is an Indian Actress who has appeared on the stage and in Bollywood films Shefali Shah also known as Shefali Shetty and Shefali Chhaya is an Indian television and film actress Vijay Raaz (विजय राज़ is a Bollywood Actor. His breakthrough hit came when he played the role role of Dubeyji in the movie Monsoon Wedding Tillotama Shome (sometimes credited as Tilotama Shome is a film actor Vasundhara Das ( Kannada:ವಸುಂಧರಾ ದಾಸ್(born 1977 is an Indian actress and Singer. Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian film Composer. Declan Quinn (Deaglán Ó Cuinn (born c 1957 is an Irish-American cinematographer a three-time winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography. Johnson |
| 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 | English |
| Budget | 7,000,000 (INR) |
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Plot
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. Naseeruddin Shah aka Nasiruddin Shah (नसीरुद्दीन शाह (b Arranged marriage (also called prearranged marriage) is a Marriage arranged by someone other than the persons getting married curtailing or avoiding the process As so often happens in Mira Nair's beloved 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. The bride, Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das), is nervous as she has been having an affair with her married ex-boss Vikram (Sameer Arya). Vasundhara Das ( Kannada:ವಸುಂಧರಾ ದಾಸ್(born 1977 is an Indian actress and Singer. The film also includes several subplots: Ria Verma (Shefali Shetty), a cousin of the bride, was sexually abused by her uncle, Lalit's brother-in-law and the family's patriarch some years earlier, and finally speaks out to prevent his abuse of another young girl in the family, Aliyah. Shefali Shah also known as Shefali Shetty and Shefali Chhaya is an Indian television and film actress The wedding contractor PK Dubey (Vijay Raaz) falls in love with the family's maid, Alice (Tillotama Shome. Vijay Raaz (विजय राज़ is a Bollywood Actor. His breakthrough hit came when he played the role role of Dubeyji in the movie Monsoon Wedding Tillotama Shome (sometimes credited as Tilotama Shome is a film actor The bride's brother Varun, struggles with his father's disapproval of his longing to be a chef and angst at his inability to satisfy the stereotypes of conventional Indian masculine characteristics, possibly stemming from a struggle to come to terms with the boy's homosexuality. Ayesha (Neha Dubey), the youngest marriageable relative of the bride, flirts with Aditi's cousin Rahul (Randeep Hooda), who has just returned from Melbourne. Randeep Singh Hooda ( August 20 1976) is an Indian actor Background He was born in Rohtak district of Haryana This is all set within the two days preceding the wedding, predominantly at the Verma's house.
Music
The film's soundtrack includes a qawwali by 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. Qawwali ( Urdu / Persian: قوٌالی; Punjabi / Multani: ਖ਼ਵ੍ਵਾਲੀ قوٌالی Brajbhasha / Hindi Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ( نصرت فتح على خاں, born October 13 1948, died August 16, 1997) was a Pakistani In Poetry, the ghazal ( Arabic / Persian / Urdu: غزل; Hindi: ग़ज़ल Turkish gazel) is a Farida Khanum is a renowned Pakistani Ghazal singer from Punjab. 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. Mohammed Rafi (Hindi मोहम्मद रफ़ी Urdu محمد رفیع December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980) was a popular Indian Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Bollywood (बॉलीवूड بالی وڈ is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai -based Hindi-language Film industry in India Urdu ( ur '''{{Nastaliq اردو}}''' trans Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language Urdu is a standardised Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and
Awards
The movie won the Golden Lion, the highest prize at the Venice Film Festival. The Leone d’Oro ('Golden Lion' is the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world Mira Nair was the first woman to win this award, and the second Indian (after Satyajit Ray for Aparajito). The Demographics of India are overall remarkably diverse India's population of approximately 1 Satyajit Ray (সত্যজিত রায় or সত্যজিৎ রায়) (2 May 1921–23 April 1992 was a Bengali Indian Filmmaker. The film was also nominated for the award for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner
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