Lalit and Pimmi are helped with the main planning by Pimmi's sister Shashi and her husband C.L ( Kulbhushan Kharbanda), who have arrived earlier from Oman. As so often happens in Indian culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times in each generation, the extended family comes together from all corners of the globe, bringing its emotional baggage along. Hemant is the son of a family friend who lives in Texas, and Aditi has only known him for a few weeks. Lalit Verma ( Naseeruddin Shah) and his wife Pimmi ( Lillete Dubey) have arranged a marriage for their daughter Aditi ( Vasundhara Das) to Hemant Rai ( Parvin Dabas). The film's central story deals with the organisation of an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding that is due to take place in a modern Indian family. In 2017, IndieWire named it the best romance of the 21st century. A musical based on the film premiered on Broadway in April 2014. Monsoon Wedding premiered in the Marché du Film section of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win the Golden Lion award and receive a Golden Globe Award nomination while grossing over $30 million internationally at the box office. Although it is set entirely in New Delhi, the film was an international co-production between companies in India, the United States, Italy, France, and Germany. Dhawan wrote the first draft of the screenplay in a week while she was at Columbia University's MFA film program. The story depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi Hindu wedding in Delhi. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah and Vasundhara Das.

Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan.

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