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Monsoon Wedding is a return to form for Mira Nair, director of 1988's Salaam
Bombay! Nair’s gift for observation of the everyday and her love for her
characters make for a delightful film, which spins a web of family relationships
that knit and break during a wedding at a perfect pace. The excellent
performances exceed the often stereotypical roles on offer (including the
incomparable Nasiruddin Shah as the harassed father, Kulbhushan Kharbanda as the
comic uncle, and Shefali Chaya as the orphaned cousin). Nair's sympathetic eye
for the unnoticed and the harassed is at its best with the tender romance
between the servant and Dube (Vijay Raaz), the marigold-munching,
upwardly-mobile wedding coordinator, who brings pathos and humour to the often
unseen servant classes. The handheld camera gives a docudrama feel to this
celebratory look at the upper-middle-class Hindu Punjabi joint family, while
paying tribute to modern Indian public culture of music, television, and, of
course, "Bollywood
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Title
Monsoon Wedding 
