There is a deep abiding passion, a willingness to delve into human darkness, all while exploring the gentleness of human love, that endears itself to the viewer in an unforgettable fashion.

| Feb 21, 2024

Filled with as much drama and emotion as there are characters and colors, Monsoon Wedding is a classic where there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

| Feb 17, 2023

This comedy may not seem like your typical Bollywood movie for the time, but that’s exactly why you should watch it.

| Oct 4, 2022

[A] whirl of color and music, familial love and romance.

| Aug 17, 2022

MONSOON WEDDING is a wonderful film in which moments of lightheartedness and joy alternate and blend with profound moments of truth. Narrated in an elaborately ornamented way and fantastically acted.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 8, 2022

A celebration of life that acknowledges how family leads to both great love and anguish, yet out of that comes a willingness to endure and overcome.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 26, 2022

This is a fleet, gentle movie, and I enjoyed it...

| Sep 13, 2021

The film is an ode to love, in all its messiness and bliss.

| Sep 2, 2021

It gave the Hindi film industry an alternative way of portraying the Big Fat Indian Wedding, and all its non-stop accompanying tamasha....

| Jun 28, 2021

Nair confronts cultural conflict and taboos many times, which are explicitly shown in shockingly frank and revealing ways.

| Feb 4, 2021

This drama by Mira Nair has been hailed as a feel-good spree, but it's better than that-a barely stable compound of the wounding, the confusing, and the appealing.

| Jul 13, 2020

There is the madness of a family wedding, there's a disturbing secret and there is also a snapshot of India at that moment in time. This is a film that doesn't date.

| May 18, 2020

Deliriously joyous.

| Feb 28, 2020

Mira Nair's most colorful and most fully realized film

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Oct 5, 2012

Not content to merely direct traffic of intersecting characters, Mira Nair never lets the scurrying ensemble lag or their stories flag. "Monsoon Wedding" is one of the most culturally savory, joyously exotic comedies since "Strictly Ballroom."

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2010

Much of the movie's incidental fun comes from acute little observations and clever set-pieces.

| Jun 22, 2010

A late radical shift in tone, from jittery exuberance to ruinous alienation, strikes an impressive contemporary note amid all the obeisance to custom.

| Jun 22, 2010

... among the most universal of films

| Original Score: B | Mar 2, 2010

A big, galloping party movie in which the party in question is a clear metaphor for the world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 22, 2009

Nair's stereotype-shattering movie -- like the polymorphous culture it illuminates -- borrows from Bollywood, Hollywood and cinema verite, and comes up with something exuberantly its own.

| Aug 18, 2008