Monsoon Wedding (Special Edition) DVD

Monsoon Wedding:

• Director Mira Nair's 2001 feature in a 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 byNair
• New video interviews with Quinn and production designer Stephanie Carroll
• Theatrical trailer

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), and How Can it Be? (2008), all with video introductions by the director

Director: Mira Nair
Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Vijay Raaz, Vasundhara Das, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Tilotama Shome

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.