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- Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tillotama Shome, Vasundhara Das, Parvin Dabas
- Director: Mira Nair
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Rating: R
- Running Time: 1 hr. 54 mins.
- Release Date: October 20, 2009
SYNOPSIS:
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches—Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she’s never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father’s hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck—as well as buried family secrets. But Nair’s celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
· New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of photography Declan Quinn
· Audio commentary featuring Nair
· Nair's short documentaries So Far from India (1983), India Cabaret (1985), and The Laughing Club of India (2001), featuring video introductions by the director
· Nair's short fiction films The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993), 11'09"01 - September 11 (Segment: "India") (2002), Migration (2007), and How Can It Be? (2008), featuring video introductions by the director
· New video interview with actor Naseeruddin Shah, conducted by Nair
· New video interviews with Quinn and production designer Stephanie Carroll
· Theatrical trailer
· New and improved English subtitle translation
· PLUS: An essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer
· Audio commentary featuring Nair
· Nair's short documentaries So Far from India (1983), India Cabaret (1985), and The Laughing Club of India (2001), featuring video introductions by the director
· Nair's short fiction films The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993), 11'09"01 - September 11 (Segment: "India") (2002), Migration (2007), and How Can It Be? (2008), featuring video introductions by the director
· New video interview with actor Naseeruddin Shah, conducted by Nair
· New video interviews with Quinn and production designer Stephanie Carroll
· Theatrical trailer
· New and improved English subtitle translation
· PLUS: An essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer
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