Monsoon Wedding Reviews

I have been following Mira Nair for quite some time now and this movie must be her best one I have seen so far (it was also the very first of her directing efforts I saw, if I recall correctly). Apparently, I wasn't the only one who really enjoyed it since this flick won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival which was probably the reason why I wanted to watch it in the first place. Anyway, it is basically a very interesting study of the middle class in India. At first, the story may sound like a soap and it did look like a soap-opera in some way but it was eventually much more than that. Indeed, even though there were many characters, they were all well developed, I thought they were all quite interesting and I really cared about those characters and what they were going through. In a certain way, this movie also shows where the Indian society stands nowadays, between tradition and modernity. To conclude, it is a really good drama, one of the best movies dealing with Indian culture that I have seen so far and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

Mira Nair made an excellent choice of shooting it like a wedding video rather than a conventional movie which gives it a very intimate feel. She also assembled a cast composed of some of the finest actors in contemporary Indian stage and cinema. Add to all this an excellent script which has *very* few false moments and you have a winner.