Monsoon Wedding
Monsoon Wedding concerns a stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world who come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend an arranged wedding.
11 February 1961, New Delhi, India
21 October 1944, Hasan Abdal, Punjab, British India
15 October 1957, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India
March 02, 2010
... among the most universal of films
December 22, 2009
A big, galloping party movie in which the party in question is a clear metaphor for the world.
December 30, 2006
An optimistic and luscious film.
September 19, 2010
Not content to merely direct traffic of intersecting characters, Mira Nair never lets the scurrying ensemble lag or their stories flag. "Monsoon Wedding" is one of the most culturally savory, joyously exotic comedies since "Strictly Ballroom."
June 24, 2006
The impression of cosmopolitan modern India, of diaspora lives thrown into collision and collusion, is engaging in itself, but the emotional optimism here is the most heartening aspect of this vivacious film.
October 05, 2012
Mira Nair's most colorful and most fully realized film
August 09, 2002
A feel-good picture in the best sense of the term.
August 18, 2008
Nair's stereotype-shattering movie -- like the polymorphous culture it illuminates -- borrows from Bollywood, Hollywood and cinema verite, and comes up with something exuberantly its own.
June 22, 2010
Much of the movie's incidental fun comes from acute little observations and clever set-pieces.
June 05, 2008
Splashy, noisy and downright fun.
July 20, 2002
A movie to fall in love by and with, a wedding to unite both the two film families and the dazzled multicultural movie audiences who watch them.
June 22, 2010
A late radical shift in tone, from jittery exuberance to ruinous alienation, strikes an impressive contemporary note amid all the obeisance to custom.

