At a Glance

A last minute arranged marriage joins together the Verma family from all around the world. The family re-unites in New Delhi to join in the celebrations with the bride and groom-to-be. But as the temperature rises so do the revelations... Part subtitled. English and Hindi dialogue.

Detailed Information

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. Monsoon Wedding traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality. The film celebrates a contemporary India never before seen on screen.

The father of the bride, Lalit (Naseeruddin Shah), and his wife Pimmi (Lillete Dubey) have endured the ups and downs of a traditional marriage for years. As their daughter prepares to marry and leave home, they reach out to each other once again, finding deep comfort in the history they have shared.

The bride, Aditi (Vasundhara Das), on the rebound from an aborted love affair with her former boss, has agreed to marry Hemant (Parvin Dabas), an engineer from Houston. Suddenly apprehensive about becoming a housewife in Texas, she revisits her lover the day before the wedding, throwing her future into turmoil.

P.K. Dubey (Vijay Raaz) is the upwardly mobile wedding planner. A cellphone-wielding wheeler-dealer, he is a member of India's emerging urban middle class. To his amazement, he finds himself falling in love with the family's innocent and virtuous maid, Alice (Tilotama Shome).

Ria (Shefali Shetty) is the bride's unmarried cousin. As she watches Aditi plunge recklessly into marriage, she begins to finally stand up to her family, defying convention and revealing a disturbing secret she has suppressed for years.

Meanwhile, in a story of steamy unconsummated teenage lust, seventeen-year-old Ayesha (Neha Dubey), another cousin of the bride, meets Rahul (Randeep Hooda), a student at the University of Sydney who is returning to India after five years. Surprised by Ayesha's boldness, Rahul becomes infatuated with this brazen young Indian woman who challenges all his assumptions about contemporary Indian culture.

With days to go, the final preparations are chaotically put in place. But tension mounts as hidden agendas, secrets, and fears threaten to not only disrupt the wedding, but to destroy family relationships for good. The relentless summer heat mirrors the story's building intensity as the city anticipates the cooling torrent of the monsoons. And when the rain comes, the cathartic downpour brings romance, revelation and liberation.