Blu-ray Review: Monsoon Wedding

My Blu-ray copy of Monsoon Wedding was waiting for when I got back in this evening and I sat down to watch it straight away. A truly special film.

“Monsoon Wedding”is a 2001 comedy film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi.

The film was warmly received by critics and won numerous the British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film; the audience award at the Canberra International Film Festival; the Golden Lion a the Venice Film Festival.

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 (Parvin Dabas as Hemant Rai). Events unfold during the four days prior to the wedding as the whole extended family comes together from all corners of the globe including India, Australia and America.

A Shakespearean comedy, traditionally, is a drama that ends in a wedding and a dance. In Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair brings those classic definitions into the new global century, and constructs, with unquenchable enthusiasm, a beauty as Indian as kerfuffle—or epiphany.