Mira Nair is back with a bang with her fifth film 'Monsoon Wedding' which won the Golden Lion Award in Venice. This time her story gives an insight to the modern Punjabi life ..with a wedding in the offing. A heart -warming family film with a lot of humour and spirits.

Its wedding time for the daughter of the Verma family and the entire family comes together from around the globe. Along with the preparations, the family politics is at its height, romance is in the air and illicit liaisons are happening at night.

The bride to be, Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das) is having second thoughts about her impending marriage arranged by her doting parents, Lalit (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pimmi (Lillette Dubey) to Hemant Rai (Parveen Dabbas) an US based Engineer. She still has feelings for her married boss Vikram (Sameer Arya) and in the spur of a movement ends up sleeping with him just days before the Big day. As she faces the feelings of guilt and confusion the movie unfolds plots involving the people around.

The movie narrates five different stories each dealing with an aspect of love, woven together brilliantly. Every set of characters have their own story. The blind love between the wedding 'Mandap' contractor (Vijay Raaz ) and the family's domestic servant Alice (Tilottama Shome), after he sees her trying on the ornaments of the bride; mature love between the parents of the bride amidst coping with the pressures of dealing with the relatives and the mounting expenses. Teenage lust between the young, sexy, Ayesha (Neha Dubey) and Rahul (Randeep Hooda), a Sydney returned student and last of all Riya (Shefali Chhaya) the daughter of one of the deceased Verma brothers who lets out a dark secret when she sees her little cousin led by her eldest uncle Tej Puri (Rajat Kapoor) who abused her, which shocks the family

Each plot woven deftly by a solid script will touch a chord in the viewers mind. Although made with a small budget, the film doesn't doesn't leave out the wedding opulence. It brings out the culture of contemporary India at its typical best. Monsoon wedding celebrates love, family and life..

Cinematographer Declan Quinn has captured the colour, gaiety of the wedding, the emotions of the characters and the monsoon drenched Delhi city beautifully. The actors have done their part well especially Naseeruddin Shah, Lillette dubey, Vijay Raaz and Shefali Chhaya. Music is lilting Punjabi with the theme song by Sukhwindara Singh.

A film worth watching. We give it a very good rating.