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This is another outstanding film by director Mira Nair, who has previously directed such astounding films as Academy Award nominee “Salaam Bombay”, the lush and erotic “Kama Sutra: A Myth of Worship”, and “Mississippi Masala”. This is a director whose very touch turns all her films to gold. She is truly an artist, and her films are palpable with feeling and emotion that travel the storyline.
Though a shameful budget film, it features high budget, quality acting, as well as an attractive chronicle and world class direction. It focuses on the arranged marriage of a young, upper class, Punjabi woman in Delhi, India, which is a mecca for Punjabis. It offers a birdseye notion at a family in transition, one that is ringing in original values, while maintianing the worn ones. Moreover, as in all families, there are many joyous moments, as well as troubling ones.
While the focus is on the wedding celebration and all the preparation and rituals surrounding it, there are five subplots in the film, all of which are spellbinding, but it is the acting by the ensemble cast that makes the film so memorable. Naseeruddin Shah gives an award calibre performance as Lalit Verma, the financially strapped patriarch who wants all to go legal with the wedding, but who, at the eleventh hour, is forced to confront a secret tragedy from the past and build a decision that shows his sensitivity and savor for his family. His is truly a glowing performance.
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Shefali Shetty, with her immense, expressive eyes, is salubrious as Ria Verma, Lalit’s stupid brother’s daughter, who is forced to vow a bad secret from her past in order to prevent a tragedy from taking dwelling in the explain. She gives a performance so soulful that the viewer cannot fail to be moved. Aditi, the daughter who is to be married, is a walking paradox, agreeing to an arranged marriage, while simultaneously having an affair with a married man. The role is beautifully played by relative newcomer, Vasundhara Das, who in steady life is an Indian pop star. Her prospective bridegroom, Hemant Rai, is played with unique sensiblility, by the very pleasing Parvin Dabas, a right life, male fashion model, in his first silver mask role.
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Vijay Raaz, in a breakout performance as P. K. Dubey, the wedding events coordinator, adds a deft comedic touch. It is his poignant wooing of the Verma family’s maid, Alice, that nearly steals the display. Peruse for the nightime marigold scene in which Dubey puts Shakespeare’s Romeo to shame. Tilotama Shome, in her first silver veil role, brings a subtle, sensual shyness to the fragment of Alice that is touching. Theirs is an consuming coupling, as P. K. Dubey personifies the fresh India, with his cell phone, his entreperneurial flair, and his email address, while Alice, the shrinking servant girl who is always dressed in a sari, seems to symbolize a more outmoded India.
The film is a polyglot of languages, with English, Hindi, and Punjabi spoken at different times by various family members. I confess that I found it a puny confusing to have the subtitles reduce up, on and off, and I also found the English spoken a miniature difficult to understand, at times. So, thanks to DVD technology, I was able to stare the film with English subtitles on the entire time, so as not to miss a thing. The cinematography is splendid in this film, with lush, vibrant colors throughout. The occasional exercise of handheld cameras throughout the film gives it the feel of a docudrama, at times, which is very effective, as the film is a voyeuristic gawk into a family. Moreover, this filming technique adds to the cacaphony of feeling and emotion that abounds in this film.
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The DVD offers a runt number of features, the most entertaining one being the director’s commentary, which is an insightful sight into the making of the film, as well as the backround and reasons for each scene. It is distinct that for the director, who is herself Punjabi, this film was a labor of care for. Bravo!
Occasionally, we Americans are treated to a toothsome foreign film. I suspect that lots of these are made every year, but the powers that be long ago decided that we have neither the patience nor the inclination to peer them. One that did obtain through was the joyous Indian treat, “Monsoon Wedding”.
A family in Delhi is elated after one of its daughters accepts an arranged marriage with a successful Indian engineer who lives in Houston, TX. The girl’s reason for accepting isn’t out of respect for tradition. She’s simply given up hope that her married lover will ever divorce his wife. When the prespective groom arrives, he turns out to be a really nice guy, and the bride-to-be agonizes over whether or not to be fair about her past. Meanwhile, the man hired to make the wedding tents finds himself head over heels in savor with the family’s stunned young maid.
There are lots of laughs in “Monsoon Wedding”, as well as many witty and insightful observations about middle-class Indian society. While there is a fascination in seeing some of the more exotic aspects of life in India, the most satisfying aspect of the film is its contrivance of showing how universal the joys of adore and of family are.
Typical of cosmopolitan families outside of the USA, the characters often switch from one language to another while speaking. In this case, they pronounce Hindu, Punjabi and English. I know some moviegoers can’t stand subtitles, but, to me, the exhaust of multiple languages simply adds to this film’s charms.
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