Monsoon Wedding
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Reuters | 3 days ago
Amelia struggled to get airborne
...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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Blogcritics | October 29, 2009
Blu-ray Review: Monsoon Wedding (The Criterion Collection)
...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...
In this article: Mira Nair, The Criterion Collection, Blu-ray, Declan Quinn, Sabrina Dhawan, and Tillotama Shome
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South Bend Tribune | October 29, 2009
Autopilot filmmaking :' Amelia' never takes flight despite material
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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The Daily Californian | October 24, 2009
Biopic 'Amelia' Crashes Soon After Takeoff
...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...
In this article: Amelia, Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Fred Noonan, George Putnam, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ron Bass
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 23, 2009
Capone says the dull AMELIA crashes and burns on the big screen!!!
...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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San Jose Mercury News | October 23, 2009
Review: 'Amelia' fails to take flight
...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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thestar.com | October 23, 2009
Amelia: Earhart's personality missing in action
...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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Kansas City Star | October 23, 2009
Amelia'
...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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USATODAY.com Movies - Top Stories | October 22, 2009
New on DVD: 'Monsoon Wedding,' 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
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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NPR | October 22, 2009
Mira Nair, Making Sense Of A Modern 'Amelia'
...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...
In this article: Mira Nair, Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Hilary Swank, Oscar, IPod, Tillotama Shome, and The Namesake
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Description from Wikipedia:
Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts romantic entanglements 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 over $20 million at the box office. Although it is set entirely in New Delhi, the film was an international co-production between companies in India, the United States, Italy, France, and Germany. The film won the Golden Lion award and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
- Name:
- Monsoon Wedding
- Release Date:
- August 30, 2001
- Directed By:
- Mira Nair
- Produced by:
- Caroline Baron, Mira Nair
- Written By:
- Sabrina Dhawan
- Editor:
- Allyson C. Johnson
- Cinematography:
- Declan Quinn
- Music By:
- Mychael Danna
- Distributed By:
- Mirabai Films, Inc. (USA)
- Length:
- 114 min
- Language:
- English
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