Monsoon Wedding
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches—Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she’s never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father’s hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck—as well as buried family secrets. But Nair’s celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of photography Declan Quinn, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Nair
- Nair’s short documentaries So Far from India (1983), India Cabaret (1985), and The Laughing Club of India (2001), featuring video introductions by the director
- Nair’s short fiction films The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993), 11'09"01—September 11 (Segment: “India”) (2002), Migration (2007), and How Can It Be? (2008), featuring video introductions by the director
- New video interview with actor Naseeruddin Shah, conducted by Nair
- New video interviews with Quinn and production designer Stephanie Carroll
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer
Cover illustration by Laura Ljungkvist, based on her opening titles
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of photography Declan Quinn, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Nair
- Nair’s short documentaries So Far from India (1983), India Cabaret (1985), and The Laughing Club of India (2001), featuring video introductions by the director
- Nair’s short fiction films The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993), 11'09"01—September 11 (Segment: “India”) (2002), Migration (2007), and How Can It Be? (2008), featuring video introductions by the director
- New video interview with actor Naseeruddin Shah, conducted by Nair
- New video interviews with Quinn and production designer Stephanie Carroll
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer
Cover illustration by Laura Ljungkvist, based on her opening titles
Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah
- Lalit Verma
- Lillete Dubey
- Pimmi Verma
- Shefali Shetty
- Ria Verma
- Vijay Raaz
- Parabatlal Kanhaiyalal “P. K.” Dubey
- Tillotama Shome
- Alice
- Vasundhara Das
- Aditi Verma
- Parvin Dabas
- Hemant Rai
Credits
- Director
- Mira Nair
- Producers
- Caroline Baron
- Producers
- Mira Nair
- Screenplay
- Sabrina Dhawan
- Cinematography
- Declan Quinn
- Executive producers
- Jonathan Sehring
- Executive producers
- Caroline Kaplan
- Associate producer
- Robyn Aronstam
- Editing
- Allyson C. Johnson
- Production design
- Stephanie Carroll
- Costume design
- Arjun Bhasin
- Line producers
- Shernaz Italia
- Line producers
- Freny Khodaiji
- Music
- Mychael Danna
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