Monsoon Wedding (2002)
92%RT Audience Score: 87%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
7 wins & 15 nominations total
An insightful, energetic blend of Hollywood and Bollywood styles, Monsoon Wedding is a colorful, exuberant celebration of modern-day India, family, love, and life.
Monsoon Wedding is the perfect movie to watch if you’re in the mood for a big, chaotic, and heartwarming family drama. It’s like a Bollywood film, but with a more realistic and grounded approach. The characters are all so lovable and relatable, and the way the film explores the complexities of love and relationships is truly beautiful. Plus, the wedding scenes are just so much fun to watch! Overall, Monsoon Wedding is a must-see for anyone who loves a good family drama with a touch of humor and romance.
Production Company(ies)
Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.,
Distributor
USA Films
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, Central Delhi, Delhi, India
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for language, including some sex related dialogue
Year of Release
2002
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 40m
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Language(s):Hindi, English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Feb 22, 2002 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 24, 2002
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, directed by Mira Nair, written by Sabrina Dhawan, Comedy, Drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Shubhra Gupta, Anthony Lane, Anupama Chopra, Joshua Rothkopf, Chuck Bowen, David Ansen, Jimmy Cage, Brian Eggert, Eve Tushnet, Allen Almachar, Soham Gadre, B Ruby Rich, produced by Caroline Baron, Mira Nair, MPAA rating R, family, love, India, Punjabi family, wedding ceremony, bonds, ensemble comedy, Hollywood, Bollywood, modern-day India, Delhi, relatives, universal, comedic ways, dramatic ways, touching, exuberant, colorful, life, relationships, culture, traditions, customs, secrets, madness, celebration, feel-good, wounding, confusing, appealing, snapshot of India, polymorphous culture, stereotype-shattering, cinema verite, galloping party movie, metaphor for the world, profound moments of truth, elaborately ornamented, fantastic acting, ode to love, cultural conflict, taboos, shockingly frank, revealing ways, deliriously joyous
Worldwide gross: $30,787,356
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $51,062,757
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,315
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 5,568,458
US/Canada gross: $13,885,966
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $23,030,744
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,365
US/Canada opening weekend: $68,546
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $113,688
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,887
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): ?7,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Lillete Dubey – Pimmi Verma
Mira Nair – Director
Sabrina Dhawan – Writer
Caroline Baron – Producer
Mira Nair – Producer
Director(s)
Mira Nair
Writer(s)
Sabrina Dhawan
Producer(s)
Caroline Baron, Mira Nair
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
7 wins & 15 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (128) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (122) | Rotten (6)
It gave the Hindi film industry an alternative way of portraying the Big Fat Indian Wedding, and all its non-stop accompanying tamasha….
June 28, 2021
Shubhra Gupta
The Indian Express
TOP CRITIC
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.
July 13, 2020
Anthony Lane
New Yorker
TOP CRITIC
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.
May 18, 2020
Anupama Chopra
Film Companion
TOP CRITIC
A late radical shift in tone, from jittery exuberance to ruinous alienation, strikes an impressive contemporary note amid all the obeisance to custom.
June 22, 2010
Joshua Rothkopf
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
A big, galloping party movie in which the party in question is a clear metaphor for the world.
December 22, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
TOP CRITIC
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.
August 18, 2008
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
MONSOON WEDDING is a wonderful film in which moments of lightheartedness and joy alternate and blend with profound moments of truth. Narrated in an elaborately ornamented way and fantastically acted.
April 8, 2022 | Rating: 9/10
Jimmy Cage
Jimmy Cage Movie Reviews (YouTube)
A celebration of life that acknowledges how family leads to both great love and anguish, yet out of that comes a willingness to endure and overcome.
February 26, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
This is a fleet, gentle movie, and I enjoyed it…
September 13, 2021
Eve Tushnet
Patheos
The film is an ode to love, in all its messiness and bliss.
September 2, 2021
Allen Almachar
The MacGuffin
Nair confronts cultural conflict and taboos many times, which are explicitly shown in shockingly frank and revealing ways.
February 4, 2021
Soham Gadre
The Spool
Deliriously joyous.
February 28, 2020
B. Ruby Rich
The Nation…
Plot
A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organization, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and even a new romance for the wedding planner Dubey with the housemaid Alice…
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Naseeruddin Shah plays Lalit Verma in the film.
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