Monsoon Wedding

...project in January 2008. Although Nair might seem an unusual choice -- she had, after all, come to fame with such Bollywood movies as "Monsoon Wedding" and "Salaam Bombay!" -- Hyman had worked with her on other period projects, most notably...

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...Josh Lasser - Published: Oct 29, 2009 at 3:46 pm 1 comment To attempt to fully describe what director Mira Nair has created with Monsoon Wedding is not the easiest of tasks. The 2001 film, shot by Declan Quinn with a script from Sabrina...

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Period drama that offers the chance to craft glorious images and play puppetmaster for fascinating characters. A filmmaker in Nair ("Monsoon Wedding," "Mississippi Masala") who has a keen feel for bold women and zestful lives. A sturdy...

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...at both, the film accomplishes neither. Nair, an artist who captures poignant moments of humanity in films such as "Salaam Bombay!" and "Monsoon Wedding," seems to vacillate between the superficiality of a motivational epic and the...

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...you enjoy his company. It feels like miles of scenes with him in them were cut, whether they actually were or not. Director Mira Nair (MONSOON WEDDING, MISSISSIPPI MASALA, THE NAMESAKE) is a wonderful magician when it comes to creating...

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...determination. She nails those, with her "Million Dollar Baby" intensity. These moments are all too fleeting, since Swank and Nair ("Monsoon Wedding") focus on appearances such as Earhart's huge smile and homey charisma, rather than...

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...Nair makes of this odd romantic triangle, given her past panache in handling emotional entanglements in earlier films such as Monsoon Wedding. It all seems perfunctory here, and fatally for the movie, neither Gere nor McGregor impress as...

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...to love Putnam, nicely played by Gere as the wind beneath her wings. </p><p>A filmmaker who customarily explores interior landscapes, Nair ("Monsoon Wedding," "The Namesake") exhilarates in Earhart's perspective, both scenic and existential.

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When it rains, it pours: Vasundhara Das and Parvin Dabas are going to get married in India. Mira Nair's exhilarating Monsoon Wedding and an essential documentary about those classic Ali-Frazier boxing matches are among this week's platinum...

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...from Mississippi Masala to The Namesake, explore themes of heritage and tradition. Above, Tillotama Shome picks at a marigold in Monsoon Wedding, a romantic comedy chronicling the extravagant preparations - and the mild madness - involved...

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