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Monsoon Wedding
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Monsoon Wedding is a film directed by Mira Nair which depicts various romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi. Because it was hugely successful across the world, earning over $20 millions at the box office, the film is often described as the highest-grossing Indian film ever made, although it was in fact a co-production between India, the USA & several other countries. The Rain is coming. & so is the Family. Monsoon Wedding at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Monsoon WeddingThe excellent performances exceed the often stereotypical roles on offer; the incomparable Nasiruddin Shah as the harassed father, Kulbhushan Kharbanda as the comic uncle, or Shefali Chaya as the orphaned cousin. Nairs sympathetic eye for the unnoticed & the harassed is at its best when showing the tender romance between the servant & Dube , the marigold-munching upwardly-mobile wedding coordinator, who brings pathos & humour to the often unseen servant classes. The handheld camera gives a docu-drama feel to this celebratory look at the upper middle class Hindu Punjabi joint family, while paying tribute to modern Indian public culture of music, television & of course Bollywood.
Naseeruddin Shah is one of the icons of New Indian Cinema along with Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi & Om Puri. Shah was born in Delhi & educated at the National School of Drama in Delhi. Like many of the other actors of his genre, Naseeruddin Shah was first noticed by Shyam Benegal. He acted in Benegals Nishant, Manthan & Bhumika. One of his most intense performances was given in Saeed Mirza s Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai. In the movie, he plays a garage mechanic from Goa who dreams of the expensive cars that he repairs but that are far beyond his reach. The film is set in a Catholic setting, primarily because Mirza did not have the courage to tackle Muslim issues. Naseeruddin Shah has also acted for other New Indian Cinema directors including Mrinal Sen & Sai Paranjpye. Besides these serious roles, he has a penchant for comedy. His roles in Ketan Mehta s films & also in films like Mandi, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron & Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!, have endeared him to the Indian public.
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Mira Nair is a New York -based Indian film director. She was born in India & attended Delhi University & Harvard. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! won the directors award at the Cannes Film Festival & was also nominated for an Oscar. Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, the youngest of three children from a middle-class family. Her father was a civil servant & her mother a social worker. She did her schooling in Bhubaneswar & Simla. She studied sociology in Delhi University. Here, she became involved in political street theater & performed for three years in an amateur drama company. She left for the US at age 19 with a scholarship at Harvard. At the beginning of her career as a film artist she directed four documentaries. India Cabaret, about the lives of strippers in a Bombay nightclub, won the award at the in 1986. Her last master work Monsoon Wedding, a film about a chaotic Punjabi Indian wedding, was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival.
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