The Extended Canon
Monsoon Wedding
मॉनसून वेडिंग · 2001
A Punjabi wedding in Delhi across five days, four love stories and one family secret nobody wants raised.
- Director
- Mira Nair
- Year
- 2001
- Genre
- Drama · Romance
- Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vijay Raaz
Why it's in the canon
Golden Lion at Venice — the first for an Indian woman director. Shefali Shah's confrontation scene is definitive.
A Punjabi wedding in Delhi across five days, four love stories and one family secret nobody wants raised.
Monsoon Wedding sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mira Nair — also responsible for Salaam Bombay!.
- Released in 2001, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Romance.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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