Monsoon Wedding

...Shome, Vasundhara Das US DVD release date: 20 October 2009 (The Criterion Collection) Like all of Mira Nair's feature films, Monsoon Wedding is a multi-layered text, open to multiple readings, and accessible from multiple vantage...

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...film director, Mira Nair, who has won plaudits at the Cannes Film Festival for such acclaimed films as 'Salaam Bombay!' and 'Monsoon Wedding', had enlisted both actors for the film adaptation, announced two years ago. But Bachchan said...

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...star turns and another awful US accent from a Ewan McGregor. Director Mira Nair brings none of the vibrancy of her breakout film Monsoon Wedding or even her exuberant Vanity Fair to Earhart's proto-feminist story. Detailing in flashback how...

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...A young man tries to shield his frail mother from the news that Communism is over in this charming exercise in "Ostalgia". 82 Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair, 2001, GBP15.65: The changing face of middle-class, urban India was brought to...

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...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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...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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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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