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...from the stock characters of Bollywood, Nair’s subjects are compelling and unusual. She depicts the life of prostitutes in Salaam Bombay and young American immigrants in Mississippi Masala. The protagonist of Monsoon Wedding is worldly and daring as she attempts to deal with her family’s wish for an arranged marriage and her own desire for the man she actually loves. Nair’s 1996 film Kama Sutra was censored in parts of India for its depiction of homosexuality...
Nair’s best known work, Monsoon Wedding, is the eighth-highest-grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S. Shot in just 30 days on real sets, this story of a Punjabi-arranged wedding received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival...
Monsoon’s characters speak in Hindi, Punjabi and English. Nair has said the use of these languages adds to the family aspect of the film, making the relationships and interactions true to India. While many Bollywood films concentrate on the upper- and middle-class, Monsoon Wedding ties together characters from all social strata...
...large portion of film’s negative was damaged during shipment to New York City—including an irreplaceable scene shot during an actual monsoon. Luckily, insurance claims allowed Nair to reshoot three of the damaged scenes and use digital technology to recreate the rain storm. She says the lost film was a blessing in disguise, forcing her to reexamine areas of the story that needed strengthening...
Elvis Mitchell’s New York Times review of Monsoon Wedding praised the realism of its hand-held camera work and Nair’s ability to turn the slightly clichéd plot into something beyond soap opera...