We can say that every marriage is equal. Some things are common property. Everyone has a bride, groom, sponsors and children. Regardless of culture or country, a marriage always has the same function – the union of a couple in love! Moreover, in any ceremony the bride is always beautiful and wonderful (and often looks better than the groom).
Monsoon Wedding film, winner of the Golden Lion for best director of the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign film, brings the simplicity of a mystical land that is India and all the preparations and excitement can make a marriage. The director Mira Nair who also directed the Kama Sutra popular, have spared no effort to demonstrate how valuable family relationships are the Indians and how arranged marriages can work and become something really valuable and respectable in the face of many other foreign traditions that condemn such practices.
Monsoon Wedding is the story of a young girl in love with an Indian bride who would not abandon his wife to marry the female protagonist. The family of the girl has not a clue about it and move on to “organize” his marriage with the male protagonist Hermant Rai. The house of the bride is packed with relatives and they train girls for marriage by traditional Indian wedding functions. The director has left no stone unturned to make the functions of marriage real look. This is a complete package with embroidered saris, “mehendi” hand painted, lots of music and dance.
