India

Then there are the times when I discover a gem, and my faith is absolutely restored. India native Mira Nair's award-winning Monsoon Wedding is such a treasure. It's funny, touching, dramatically forceful, and beautifully shot. It has some great...

In this article: Mira Nair, Monsoon Wedding, Sabrina Dhawan, New Delhi, DVD, Celluloid, Lillete Dubey, Naseeruddin Shah, Vasundhara Das, and The Perez Family

...happens to be married. Although her specific issues are not at the heart of the film, Nair is able to use them to examine and discuss the norm/tradition in India and how it is changing, and perhaps not for the better. In fact, watching the...

In this article: Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair, The Criterion Collection, Blu-ray, Declan Quinn, Sabrina Dhawan, and Tillotama Shome

...your choice but approval is something else. '' Marrying out of the community is now quite routine in India - the religious jump is still sticky - but it's not without its share of hiccups. The pretentious Bengali vs ostentatious Punjbai...

In this article: Ekta Kapoor, Hiccup, Chetan Bhagat, Mira Nair, Karan Johar, and Monsoon Wedding

...markets. IDIP is set to launch 7 films produced by reputed producers at Cannes in May 2007. iDream Production is India's leading production company. Till date, iDream has been involved in the production and/or distribution of 10 films -...

In this article: London, Joint venture, The Sick House, Gina Philips, Bend It Like Beckham, and Monsoon Wedding

...until visiting Mumbai on holiday in February 2008. Thereafter, she took up residence in Mumbai and, after completing some outstanding projects in New York, she returned to India in May 2008. She played Alice in Mira Nair's feature film,...

In this article: Tillotama Shome, Mumbai, New York, Sweets, Shadows of Time, New York University, Mira Nair, and Monsoon Wedding

...in "Ostalgia". 82 Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair, 2001, GBP15.65: The changing face of middle-class, urban India was brought to warts-and-all life in this freewheeling, thought-provoking drama. 81 Milk 80 The Return Andrei...

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...to Kumar, with its "eye for social observation and injustice." *The Bandit Queen is the fictionalized story of Phoolan Devi, a modern day, female Robin Hood in India. *Monsoon Wedding was moderately successful in the U.S. Kumar...

In this article: Amitava Kumar, Monsoon Wedding, Vassar College, Shashi Tharoor, Mira Nair, Golden Globe Award, Phoolan Devi, and Satya

...Rai). As so often happens in Mira Nair's beloved Punjabi culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times each generation, the whole family comes together from all corners of the globe including India, Australia and America. The...

In this article: Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair, Venice Film Festival, Farida Khanum, Biwi No.1, Ria Verma, Canberra International Film Festival, and Columbia University

...conclusions, it marks a promising and energetic debut from a filmmaker who is clearly seeking to widen audiences' perceptions of India and its cinema culture. Rehaan Engineer plays Xen, proprietor of an eponymous hair salon, where...

In this article: Koel Purie, Bombay, Cocaine, It's a Wonderful Life, Mira Nair, and Lisa Kudrow