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Monsoon wedding [videorecording (DVD)] : and seven short films / directed by Mira Nair.

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distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis, c2002.

Weddings -- Drama.

Arranged marriage -- Drama.

Culture conflict -- Drama.

Criterion collection 489.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Monsoon wedding [videorecording (DVD)]

So far from India [videorecording (DVD)].

India cabaret [videorecording (DVD)].

The day the mercedes became a hat [videorecording (DVD)].

The laughing club of India [videorecording (DVD)].

11'09"01-September 11 [videorecording (DVD)].

Migration [videorecording (DVD)].

How can it be? [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)] :

Director-approved special ed., double-disc set.

2 videodiscs (114 min. + bonus material) : 5.1 Dolby digital Surorund sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet

Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.

Special features: Monsoon wedding: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by Nair and director of photography Declan Quinn ; audio commentary featuring Nair ; 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 ; Seven short films: the documentaries So far from India (1982), India cabaret (1985) and The laughing club of India (2000), and the fiction films The day the mercedes became a hat (1993), 11'09'01 - September 11 [Segment: "India"] (2002), Migration (2007), How can it be? (2008), all with video introductions by the director ; plus a booklet featuring essayist Pico Iyer.

Widescreen aspect ratio: 1.85:1. Enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

An India/USA/Italy/Germany/France co-production.

In English with Hindi [with some Panjabi and Urdu] with optional English (SDH) subtitles.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Disc 1. Monsoon wedding -- Disc 2. Short films by Mira Nair.

IFC Productions/Key Films/Pandora Filsm/Paradis Films ; produced by Caroline Baron, Mira Nair ; written by Sabrina Dhawan ; directed by Mira Nair.

Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tilotama Shome, Vasundhara Das, Parvin Dabas and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.

"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 that won the hearts of audiences worldwide and the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. This set also includes seven of Nair's acclaimed shorts - documentaries and fiction films that show the social and political engagement of this most passionate of filmmakers."--Container.

Winner, Best Picture, Golden Lion, Venice International Film Festival, 2001.

Romantic comedy films.

Bollywood films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Shah, Naseeruddin.

Dubey, Lillete.

Shetty, Shafali.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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