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...Mira Nair??s Monsoon Wedding was a hit as soon as it opened in Harvard Square. Here’s some of what Crimson staff writer Amelia Lester had to say about the film in her March 15, 2002 review...
...action is at its most convincing when it appears to be unfolding before our eyes, an effect no doubt helped by Nair??s decision to film almost entirely on Super 16mm—blown up to 35mm—retaining the mesmerizing freneticism of the hand held camera...
...Nair??s ability to pack every frame with eye-candy has garnered her worldwide attention. Documentaries So Far From India and India Cabaret won international awards, and her first feature film Salaam Bombay! was nominated for an Oscar. Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington, won three awards at the Venice Film Festival. Monsoon Wedding was showered with critical acclaim, while her more daring Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love and The Perez Family sparked controversy...
Though the equipment was obsolete, VES professors’ passion infused Nair with a desire to make films and introduced her to various directors and styles. And as a sophomore, she met Sooni R. Taraporevala ’79, who now writes Nair??s screenplays...
...family prepares to celebrate an arranged marriage, they speak in a jumble of Hindi and English (the young men tell everyone to “chill” in English, while grandmothers speak only Hindi) and the girls read Cosmopolitan, while the boys watch MTV. In any case, Nair??s message on globalization is unclear, for while she evidently reveres traditional culture through her attention to details during the wedding preparations, she highlights the liberating effects of western culture on the more suffocating elements of daily Indian life...