Monsoon Wedding‚ a Bollywood film directed by Mira Nair and released in 2001‚ earned just above $30 million at the box office [1]. The film brilliantly depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi‚ while delicately handling sensitive issues such as child-abuse‚ pre-arranged marital infidelity‚ growing old and striving to be different as an upper middle class Indian boy‚ or being a flirtatious‚ bored but basically settled NRI (non-resident Indian) housewife. The film
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makes a family seems more cultured. As Nair introduces the vibrant -and often chaotic‚ feel of an Indian family gathering through the camera that shifts from one character to another quickly‚ she used this scene as a catalyst to more conflicts in the movie. The whiskey and cigar often seen as a symbol of wealth in Indian society and by serving it for the guests is a showcase of prestige and a perception of cultured for Lalit despite it being perceived otherwise by
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Monsoon wedding”(2007)‚ an award winning movie‚ directed by mira nair. Features widely known Indian actors‚ such as Vasundhara Das‚ Naseeruddin Shah and Vijay Raaz. The film is based on the autobiographical account of Mira Nair’s own family.( Manish Gajjar 2002) It is about a stressed father‚ a bride-to-be with a secret‚ a smitten events coordinator‚ and relatives from around the world who create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India (IMDB). The excellent exploitaation
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October 19‚ 2004 English 102 A Wedding in a Monsoon and a Monsoon of a Wedding Marriage is an institution that has spanned time. In India it is one of their many traditions. It has changed lives for the better and for the worse. I will be looking at two different art forms that display marriage in two different sights. One will be Monsoon Wedding‚ a Mira Nair film‚ which portrays marriage‚ specifically arranged marriage‚ in a way that looks on the tradition not as a thing of the past but a
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Elashry ID: 1271646 English 233 November 14th 2012 Globalization: Monsoon Wedding In the film Monsoon Wedding the theme of globalization is displayed as a constant battle between the preservation of cultural tradition vs. the social change that evolves through modernism. On the outer shell the film focuses on the arranged marriage put together for Lalit Verma’s daughter Aditi and the difficulties of throwing such a large wedding party. Yet at the core the film focuses on difficult situations characters
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Narrative o The film’s narrative is constructed around the erection of the wedding tent by PK Dubey. o The romance entanglements of the Punjabi family is played out against this "manufactured" nuptial event. o traces five intersecting stories‚ each navigating through different aspects of love of during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi. In essence: o The love between a couple married for 25 years‚ teenage lust‚ the bride’s tryst with her lover the night before her arranged marriage to
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In the movie Monsoon Wedding‚ there were many examples of Indian culture and how things were done there and the way that they differ from our culture. The sociological theory that best explains the way that society functions in this movie is the symbolic interaction theory. Symbolic interaction is shown by the example of how Ria is unmarried and wants to go to college which is against the norm of society‚ she is the symbol of the western type of life and shows how India is beginning to move towards
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Definition of a Monsoon: The word "monsoon" is come from the Arabic word call “mausim" which means season. The Ancient traders sailing in the Indian Ocean and adjoining Arabian Sea used it to describe a system of alternating winds which blow persistently from the northeast during the northern winter and from the opposite direction‚ the southwest‚ during the northern summer. How does Monsoon form? Monsoons are caused primarily by variation in temperature over large areas of land than over
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The most important event in the Indian year is the monsoons. India is an agricultural country‚ and the year’s crops depend on the character of rainy season. A good monsoon means prosperity‚ excess of monsoon indicates floods and failure of monsoon spells drought and famine. The monsoon‚ or trade winds‚ reaches India about the month of June‚ firstly on the south – western coasts of Kerala. Coming‚ as they do over thousands of miles of sea‚ they are laden with moisture‚ and when they feel and meet
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The major monsoon systems of the world consist of the West African and Asia-Australian monsoons. The inclusion of the North and South American monsoons with incomplete wind reversal has been debated.[4] The term was first used in English in British India (now India‚ Bangladesh and Pakistan) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area.[5][6] The south-west monsoon winds are called
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