Boba_Fett1138 The way I see it; this is a pretty good, fun and charming movie to pass some time with but it definitely isn't something too impressive or brilliant.The good news is that this movie is very watchable for just about everybody. You don't have to be into Bollywood movies to like or appreciate this movie. Yes, the movie is very Indian but yet not really typical Bollywood like.It basically is a very simple movie, with its setup. It's set during and around an arranged wedding and the movie follows multiple different members of the family and others involved. But it does in in such a way that the movie still feels focused enough and keeps a pleasant flow to its storytelling.But what the movie is lacking with its storytelling is some edge. I feel that the movie too often decides to play things on the safe side and it doesn't goes quite far enough with some of its themes and story lines. It makes the movie quite tame but at the same time of course also more enjoyable to watch, so it's not like it ruins the movie or makes it a completely unwatchable one.The characters all have something going for them and most are likable ones, which make them and this movie pleasant to follow. There are definitely a bunch of different characters in this movie but the movie does a good job balancing things out between each and everyone of them. It never looses its focus, though it so easily could had done that, at certain points.The movie is also a colorful one, which of course adds to its overall atmosphere and enjoyment level, though the movie still definitely is being a serious drama as well. But luckily it's no melodrama and actually picks some realistic themes and has all of its characters responding and coping with it in a very realistic manner.A good movie to watch, that you might even end up loving. After all, it's a quite popular movie!7/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

khurram712-1 Apart from a colorful marriage(which every marriage in Indo Pak subcontinent is..and may be more than that).The movie doesn't hold anything else.If you want to see good Indian movie then watch Lagaan or Swades.I guess no one in the West has seen wedding movie like "Hum Apkay hein Kon" who are howling for this movie.Very Good Soundtrack.The additional stories(good ones and thats why i think they should have been given more time) are added and scrapped out just to fill out the time.For example the maid wearing jewelery of the bride and mistaken for stealing it.Now in normal scenario those servants would have told the Bride's Father and the poor maid would have been kicked out.The feeling of Monsoon was the thing i liked a lot .For those who haven't seen Indian marriages,it will be something extraordinary(like My Big Fat Greek Wedding was for me) and not much for those who attend these marriages all the year.

info-12388 So she's gone off with her lover for one last tryst, then, in a panic, drives off in his car.And nothing happens? The police don't follow her home? The lover doesn't come to get his car back? The family never finds out? Lovely film, but that one plot point made me wonder more than a little.I was also thrown a bit by the multitude of characters at the very start: so many plots, so few of them really well developed. The son (I gather by a previous marriage?) that the father always calls "idiot". The lightly discussed child abuse by the scion of the wealthy side of the family. The father's having to turn to his golfing buddies for cash to pay for this extravaganza. Couple that with the characters themselves never really all that well defined, and it's mass confusion for the first hour. Finally it all gets sorted out, and we can move on to the wedding, but it still felt to sketchy: the overly understanding groom, the final-frame "happily ever after", the wedding organizer's quickie wedding as well... it just felt thrown together.

birija-das Monsoon Wedding is a comedy-drama tackles the chaos that results when a large Indian family, whose members are scattered around the globe, assembles in contemporary New Delhi for an old-fashioned marriage ceremony. However, things get tense among the family members when hidden agendas, secrets, and fears threaten to disrupt the wedding. Director Mira Nair, best known for Mississippi Masala, a cross-cultural love story with Denzel Washington, as well as the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, aims for pure joy and achieves it.For much better review you must go to http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=3448