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Summary: This Girl Think Monsoon Wedding is Fantastic!
Review: I watched Monsoon Wedding with my sister after she rented the DVD when someone recommended it and I liked it a lot and thought it was highly entertaining, I liked everything about it, the story, the acting, the music, etc and I highly recommend it and I could definitely watch this beautiful movie again and I'm thinking of buying the Monsoon Wedding DVD
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Summary: It makes you Mourn Soon
Review: Well Monsoon Wedding oops did i say Mourn Soon Wedding...
I thought movie lacked conviction and that reflects in its inept screen play, jarring editing and made up performances!!!!Mira Nair the Inter-Nationally Renowned Director ya "inter-nationally" does a Sooraj Bharjatiya with a C rate southern soft porn flick God help me getting married if i were to go by the definition by Ms. Nair Well with festivals round the corner i am being kind enough to give it one star which too it does not merit
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Summary: Come with reservation leave awed
Review: Frankly, one can have a reservation while sitting in for this movie thinking about some other Indian movies with its tawdry dance-sequences in the wild forest and gardens and melodramatic events and so forth. But this one certainly have the capability of pleasantly drawing audiences in to this very urban foreign culture where many things are, without analyzing details, as it is, full of puzzling and surprising anecdotes creating waves of emotions- sweet and sour and occasionally moving seamy sides of life in this vast foreign culture visibly dominated by western techno-socio-econo influences in every level. While feeling like a silent neighbor watching events next door, audience feels strangely akin to some universal tunes of human reaction wondering why not so many movies are made like this that takes you to experience life in many dimensions without the ordeal of boredom and noisy sound effects of destruction of piles of structural concretes or flaming metallic conglomerates ........
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Summary: It's an Indian Film, but it's not Bollywood.
Review: What I mean by that is: This is typical indian drama, probably equal to Indian soap opera television. Bollywood films seem to have a standard which makes it a Bollywood film. Bollywood films usually work with a bigger budget and provide dance videos which people have come to expect from a Bollywood film. Plus, there is a large pool of favored Bollywood actors and actresses people expect to see when they go to see a Bollywood film. Although there is a mix of Hindi language in this film "Monsoon Wedding", it does appear to be made to please an audience outside of India. This is a shorter film, and much less musical than a standard Bollywood film. Plus, the subject matter here, can be deemed a little loose-tongued, more or less, than a Bollywood film since Bollywood movies were made to please all age groups. You know, the perfect family picture for all audiences.
This film has its appeal but, don't measure this with real Bollywood films. You'll have a tainted opinion before you have the facts. Actually, you should see "Lagaan" next. There are some more Indian (non-Bollywood) films you can see, too, if you'd like to see Indian films with English dialogue, instead of relying on subtitles. Check out "Bend it Like Beckham" and maybe "Bollywood/Hollywood". For Bollywood films more readily available through American DVD release, look into "Lagaan", "Asoka", Mission Kashmir" (women are going nuts over Hrithik Roshan), and maybe "Devdas". Some people are already aware of the Bollywood film actress, "Miss World 1994", Aishwarya Rai. She's in the Indian Blockbuster "Devdas", and a wonderful film called "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam". This film was the 1999 Winner of 7 Filmfare and 10 Screen Awards. Aishwarya Rai has done more than 50 films in the past 10 years. It's even been hinted that she have been approached about being the next "Bond Girl" in the next James Bond film.
During June 2003, the "Turner Movie Classics" channel has been showing Bollywood films through the month on Thursdays. My friends and family have started watching them because I encouraged them to do so. Everyone seems to be pretty excited about what they experienced. The exposure to Bollywood (and other Indian) films is growing here in America. I don't have a doubt Indian films are going to become an invasion to America inside the next few years. I mean, think about it: Many of us are bored with American Hollywood stars. Many Hollywood stars are much older (10 to 20 year veterans of film) and are losing their appeal. I think this is why "Reality TV" has become so popular. The American audience wants to see new faces. New, unknown, good-looking people. At work, everyone seems to be talking about this new girl on a "reality show" whom no one knew three weeks earlier, or some new guy that they're hoping to see more of. Hollywood stars are getting old and tiresome (and not as attractive as they use to be).
I reccommend that you get ahead of the game, and start checking out all the good-looking stars of Bollywood film. Go to an Indian store (or go to Netflix.com, or some other rental sorce that provides Indian films), and open up a DVD rental account. Bollywood is a large film industry (larger than you'd ever imagine), and it's wonderful. It's time to get away from those Hollywood dinosaurs, for awhile. Don't you think?
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Summary: Wonderful, rich, uplifting
Review: Monsoon Wedding is a rich, warm, colorful, lavish, hilarious, and deeply moving gift from Mira Nair to the audience. An utterly delightful web of family relationships is woven through the movie, centering around an arranged wedding (in Texas!). But that's just the central theme. Almost more interesting is the sub-story of a romance developing between a servant girl and the opportunistic, marigold-eating (??? What is THAT all about ??) wedding-planner.
Super-duper. Even my 90yo father loved it!
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Summary: monsoon wedding
Review: Both myself and my husband loved this movie and had to watch it twice. I thought I would be annoyed with the sub titles but the story and the plots made the film worth it. I didn't have a problem forwarding past the preview part of the dvd and was able to go straight to the movie although I had to use a different button on the remote control instead of the ff button.
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Summary: This is not just a brown Big fat Greek Wedding
Review: When it comes to adult daughters, I have found every culture bugs them about their marriage plans i.e. "have them before you get old like age 30". In this movie, Aditi agrees to marry a suitable guy from Houston whom she meets only a few weeks before the wedding. Meanwhile, she has not stopped her affair with Vikram, a married coworker, whom she knows will never leave his wife. There is one particularly telling scene when Aditi is in trouble and calling for Vikram to help her, but he's taking a cell phone call to lie to his wife about his whereabouts. In another plot, her unmarried orphaned cousin is harboring a secret that hurts her terribly. In yet another plot, their wedding planner Dubey, who has a penchant for eating the marigolds that are the wedding's theme, has fallen in love with Alice, the wedding family's maid. This is interesting as they are of a lower caste, seen to be servile, yet have more passion and kindness for each other than the higher-classed betrothed couple. The conversations jump between Hindi, Punjabi and English (with subtitling as needed.) The DVD gives the option of hearing it all in English, but I enjoyed the original version. It's colorful, comedic, sad and full of many characters in the multi-generational extended family. Various relatives arrive at the wedding home for the event scheduled to take place in India's monsoon season, and Mira Nair does a good job of keeping all the characters distinct and memorable so you don't have a hard time keeping them all straight as you might have otherwise. It's enjoyable, humorous without being just a big joke.
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Summary: What a charmer!
Review: This has to be one of my alltime favorites! At once lushly exotic and lovingly familiar, this film has delighted everyone I know who's had the pleasure of seeing it. Love, marriage, passion (both well-placed and misguided), regrets... and lots of family relationships intertwined throughout. Sounds like a run-of-the-mill chick flick, I know, but my husband adores this also (well, he IS a sensitive soul). Oh, and the music is really great as well! So sensually directed, you'll feel like you got caught in a sultry downpour in the middle of the hot Indian monsoon season. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Mira Nair rocks.
Review: Another charming film by Mira Nair, portraying a kooky, sprawling Indian family as it prepares for a long-awaited and lavish wedding. There are all kinds of cross-generational, cross-caste and cross-cultural issues to be hashed out, as well as a hidden family secret or two. Engaging and heartfelt. Nice.
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Summary: Great Movie.
Review: This movie is a great pick for the Indian audience or any foreign film enthusiast in the American audience. It's about how love grows and blossoms, in any kind of setting. It's a drama/comedy type a movie.
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