Reviews

Although entertaining in some sense; Wedding offers nothing new and confirms that Ms. Nair still lacks in her films the following: narrative flow, subtlety and basic crafts of filmmaking which differentiates a good movie from an average or a bad one. Walking out of the theater one feels good about the vibrant colors of India, it's free spirit that is omnipresent, the music (albeit not original) but cannot deny the fact that a lot of people with a handheld camera, lacking illusions about cinema verite and a sudden urge to make a film in 30 days or less can churn out better stuff than Monsoon Wedding. This fails to represent the subject matter helped by the absence of a plot (albeit good potential narrative) and presence of too many sub-plots and at the end of it all we have a cinematic mess in our hands wondering what was Ms Nair thinking? May be the sad truth is filmmaking in a lot of people's mind does not equate to good storytelling and a thoughtful representation of the subject matter in hand.

Did the jurors at Venice Film Festival actually see the movie or they were happy to note that Wedding is not your everyday Bollywood production? Sadly, it is not too far from it either

Since American Desi "tries" to dabble with a lot of issues that are seemingly important not only to "desis"; but are actually universal, there was some expectation from the movie. The moviegoer cannot be faulted for this. But the final fare turned out to be a less than ordinary romantic "comedy", with more touch of Bollywood than warranted.