Sabrina Dhawan

...Monsoon Wedding is not the easiest of tasks. The 2001 film, shot by Declan Quinn with a script from Sabrina Dhawan, is the tale of the wedding of the only daughter of a Punjabi family in Delhi. As with so much of Nair's work, the film...

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

...everyone's vulnerable side. When Lalit sobs in frustration on his wife's shoulders it matters because Nair and Dhawan take the time into making the characters more than just by-products of a sitcom predicament. Aside from its dramatic...

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

...through. Vishal better think hard about how to surpass this one." The credits, he points out, include Sabrina Dhawan, who also wrote Mira Nair's "best film" Monsoon Wedding , "which also had the same pattern of many stories being told...

In this article: Kaminey, Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Monsoon Wedding, All rights reserved, Economic Times, Dev D, Reliance Industries, and Ronnie Screwvala

...little gem," in the 1998 anthology. They signed award-winning screenwriter Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding) to adapt it for their newly formed New York-based independent production company, Gigantic Pictures. "The rights to short stories are...

In this article: Cosmopolitan, Carol Kane, Chutney Popcorn, Nisha Ganatra, Roshan Seth, Akhil Sharma, and PBS

...during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi. Writer Sabrina Dhawan wrote the first draft of the screenplay in a week while she was at Columbia University's MFA film program. Monsoon Wedding earned just above $30 million at the box...

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