The big bash theory: Mira Nair's latest movie revels and reels. (The Critics Film). (movie review)
American Prospect, The, March, 2002 by Hoffman, Adina
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MIRA NAIR'S NEW COMIC melodrama Monsoon Wedding opens with a shot of a frowning man trying to prop up a traditional Indian marigold bower, then flits straight to his agitated cordless-phone conversation with a clownish "event manager." As we soon learn, the frowning man is Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), a well-to-do New Delhi suburbanite, and the event is the arranged marriage of his only daughter to an engineer who lives in Houston.
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Within seconds, the underlying theme of this likable if somehow scatter-brained movie--the fusion and occasional confusion of ancient and ...
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