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Monsoon wedding [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 22284 | UniversalLanguage: English, Hindi, Panjabi Summary language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, c2002.Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

0783271301

Subject(s):

Production credits:

Director of photography, Declan Quinn ; editor, Allyson C. Johnson ; music, Mychael Danna.

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tilotama Shome, Vasundhara Das, Parvin Dabas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda.Summary: Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding is a lilting, refreshing romantic comedy about the happenings in and around a family preparing for the arranged wedding of their daughter. The film is a celebration of love, marriage and family in sounds, music and color. Refreshingly sensual, the story revolves around the efforts of Lalit Verma, the hard-pressed father of the bride-to-be, to see his daughter Aditi happily and traditionally married. After some resistance, Aditi agrees to an arranged marriage with Hemant, an engineer living in Houston. Even with the wedding day near, Aditi still has yearnings for her married lover, an egotistical TV celebrity. Monsoon Wedding joyfully celebrates family, marriage, friendship, romance. Nair orchestrates the film beautifully with its full complement of characters and story lines. The film has the look of a Bhollywood film yet is remarkably western in its narrative and direction - on a simple level it's the classic Father of the Bride story set in India. The cast is a delight with Naseeruddin Shah as the much-put-upon Lalit Verma, Lilette Dubey as his wife Pimmi, Shefali Shetty as Ria their niece [who wants to write in America but who also harbors a burdensome secret about a member of the extended family], Vasundhara Das as Aditi, Parvin Dabas as Hemant Rai [the groom], Tilotama Shome as Alice [the Verma's serving girl], Rajit Kapoor as Tej Puri and Vjay Raaz as the goofily competent wedding planner, . K. Dubei whose clownish façade hides a romantic's soul. Notes: Screenplay by Sabrina Dhawan. Cinematography by Declan Quinn. Awards: Best Foreign Language Film nomination British Academy Awards & Golden Globe, 2001. Screen International European Film Award nomination European Film Academy. Box-office gross: $27,600,000 U.S.Summary: Love, lust and hope envelop an upper middle-class Indian family and their world-wide guests as they celebrate for four days the arranged marriage of their daughter to an East Indian man from Texas.Summary: Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding is a lilting, refreshing romantic comedy about the happenings in and around a family preparing for the arranged wedding of their daughter. The film is a celebration of love, marriage and family in sounds, music and color. Refreshingly sensual, the story revolves around the efforts of Lalit Verma, the hard-pressed father of the bride-to-be, to see his daughter Aditi happily and traditionally married. After some resistance, Aditi agrees to an arranged marriage with Hemant, an engineer living in Houston. Even with the wedding day near, Aditi still has yearnings for her married lover, an egotistical TV celebrity. Monsoon Wedding joyfully celebrates family, marriage, friendship, romance. Nair orchestrates the film beautifully with its full complement of characters and story lines. The film has the look of a Bhollywood film yet is remarkably western in its narrative and direction - on a simple level it's the classic Father of the Bride story set in India. The cast is a delight with Naseeruddin Shah as the much-put-upon Lalit Verma, Lilette Dubey as his wife Pimmi, Shefali Shetty as Ria their niece [who wants to write in America but who also harbors a burdensome secret about a member of the extended family], Vasundhara Das as Aditi, Parvin Dabas as Hemant Rai [the groom], Tilotama Shome as Alice [the Verma's serving girl], Rajit Kapoor as Tej Puri and Vjay Raaz as the goofily competent wedding planner, . K. Dubei whose clownish façade hides a romantic's soul. Notes: Screenplay by Sabrina Dhawan. Cinematography by Declan Quinn. Awards: Best Foreign Language Film nomination British Academy Awards & Golden Globe, 2001. Screen International European Film Award nomination European Film Academy. Box-office gross: $27,600,000 U.S.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 0516 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050094136

Originally produced or released in 2001.

Special features include: the making of "Monsoon wedding" ; feature commentary with Mira Nair ; theatrical trailer.

Run time: approx. 115 min.

DVD.

English language soundtrack (5.1 Dolby digital surround or 5.1 DTS surround) ; some dialogue in Hindi or Panjabi with English subtitles ; with optional subtitles in French or Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

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