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Synopsis: A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organization, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and even a new romance for the wedding planner Dubey with the housemaid Alice...
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Mira Nair
Production: USA Films
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
R
Year:
2001
114 min
$14,000,000
Website
3,221 Views


- He's coming here tonight.

We're hoping Ria and Umang

will like each other.

What are the chances

of getting hooked?

Bad.

Save the jokes for the sangeet.

He'll be the MC at the sangeet.

Varun, out!

What's your problem anyway?

Varun, what happened to you?

Mrs. Mehta speaking. Who's this?

Okay, okay, I have

an announcement to make.

I'm thinking that if Ria wants

to study in America...

I will fund her entire education.

No, no arguments.

This is my family.

You see, Lalit,

Ria is a sensible girl.

If she wants to write,

we must encourage her.

I can still work.

This is final!

We'll talk about it later, okay?

Now you tell us what needs

to be done for the wedding.

Absolutely. Now you don't have

to worry about anything.

Anything.

My God, I don't know what to say.

This is enough for me

that we are all here together.

My God! Pimmi, it's wonderful, no?

After so many years.

After Surinder bhai-sahab passed away...

I think this is the first time

the whole family's here together.

Ria, Ria, Ria.

Don't cry.

I know you are missing him.

We are all missing your father.

Dubey!

Rahul, go start the generator.

- I don't even know where it is.

- Behind the house, idiot!

Come, I'll show you.

Umang?

Yeah, just hold on a sec.

Its very unclear.

Hello?

When are you arriving?

Hello, hello?

Think you can handle it?

Yeah, sure.

- Hi.

- Hi.

I'm glad I got some exercise.

All I've been doing is

eating and eating and eating.

I'm sorry I had to

wake you up this early...

but this is the only time

we're gonna have on our own.

There's just so many ceremonies.

And I don't even know

who's who half the time.

I know what you mean.

I wanted to talk to you about our-

Here's the coffee, ma'am.

Thank you.

Do you want something?

I'll have a salt lassi, please.

Sure, I'll get it.

I want to know what's on your mind.

Sleep! That's all

that's on my mind right now.

I saw you with your family yesterday.

You guys are so close.

Sometimes...

I worry about how it will be

for you in America.

You might just feel so alone.

I'm sure I can handle it.

It'll be really nice to get away

from this damned place.

Why? You don't like Delhi?

No, I love India.

I mean, I don't care. America's

gonna be new for me anyway.

My fiance.

Sorry, I'm just not a morning person.

Vicky, is it okay

if I join the four-ball today?

No, no, I'll be there 100%.

I'll be there. Don't worry. Okay, bye.

Pimmi.

Pimmi.

What are you doing inside?

Nothing.

Nothing.

I know very well what you're doing.

Open up. I have to get ready.

Just a minute.

If you must hide and smoke,

at least use a better air freshener.

I was a little tense.

Tense? You're going shopping!

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Sabrina Dhawan

Sabrina Dhawan is an Indian screenwriter and producer, born in England and raised in Delhi, India. Dhawan is an associate professor and the area head of screenwriting at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She has been commissioned to write for many large companies including Disney, HBO, ABC Family and 20th Century Fox. She has taught at filmmaking labs all over the world. Dhawan is most well known for her writing credits on various feature-length films, as well as some producing and directing work on her own independent short films. She works a great deal within Indian and Bollywood cinema. Monsoon Wedding, a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair, is one of her earliest and most well known works, launching her screenwriting career. Dhawan has a brief acting cameo in Monsoon Wedding as a wedding guest. more…

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