Director Mira Nair's love letter to family, weddings and India revolves around the elaborate nuptials of two young professionals, each with one foot planted in tradition and the other in the modern, globalized world. In love with married television personality Vikram Mehta (Sameer Arya), Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das) decides marriage is her best chance for moving forward and so allows her parents, Lalit (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pimmi (Lillete Dubey), to arrange a match with Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas), an engineer who lives in Houston, Tex. Soon the Verma and Rai families — but especially the Vermas — are up to their bindis in wedding preparations, which include a whirlwi...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins