Monsoon Wedding

It gave the Hindi film industry an alternative way of portraying the Big Fat Indian Wedding, and all its non-stop accompanying tamasha....

This drama by Mira Nair has been hailed as a feel-good spree, but it's better than that-a barely stable compound of the wounding, the confusing, and the appealing.

There is the madness of a family wedding, there's a disturbing secret and there is also a snapshot of India at that moment in time. This is a film that doesn't date.

Monsoon Wedding offers an insider’s view of an important cultural event by creating a group portrait of character types in a Robert Altman-like giant collage that results in a film that feels very busy but is never less than fascinating.