Monsoon Wedding Critic Reviews

Contains an incest story line that's disturbing but shouldn't scare people away. Nair handles the subject with such grace and sensitivity that it becomes just another element in this complex celebration of family.Read the full review

The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater.Read the full review

Exploding on the screen in a riot of movement, music and color.Read the full review

Has an engaging warmth and an effortless sense of life. It also has an instinct for the humanity and universality of situations that are comic, romantic and quite seriously dramatic by turns.Read the full review

Nair is not making a caricature out of Lalit or anyone else. She's inviting us into the inner recesses of her culture. And it's both pleasure and privilege to be one of her guests.Read the full review

Nair's movie, far from being paste, is a string of small, exquisite gems.Read the full review

The film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too.Read the full review

Some of the movie's best scenes -- knockouts, in fact -- involve musical interludes.Read the full review

One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature.Read the full review