Word: monsoon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seems fitting that Mira Nair, the renowned film director and producer who achieved international acclaim with her hit film Monsoon Wedding, would have come to Harvard because she saw the campus in a movie...
...summer 2000, Nair shot Monsoon Wedding—the film that finally caught the American public’s attention and catapulted Nair to international stardom...
...Sixty-eight actors, 148 scenes, and one hot monsoon season later, using paintings, jewelry, saris, and furniture taken from relatives on the screen, with each member of my family acting in it, after shooting exactly 30 days, a film was born that then had a journey so different from any expectation (more correctly, non-expectation) that we might have had for it during its making,” Nair said in a lecture at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht on Sept...
...Monsoon Wedding met with tremendous critical acclaim, winning a Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival—making Nair the first woman to do so—as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It also saw commercial success, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing foreign film ever released in the United States...
...point of view in Monsoon Wedding is not designed for Western eyes; the point of view is to be true to the culture itself,” Nair says. “When you can capture the culture it becomes universal. That’s the difference and that’s the power...people really identify with it whether from Hungary or Iceland...