Weddings traditionally bring out the best and worst in families.

That's what the extended family in Mira Nair's lively comedy of manners Monsoon Wedding, opening at the Princess Theatre today, learn as they prepare for the arranged marriage of Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das) to Hermant Rai (Parvin Dabas).
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New York-based filmmaker Mira Nair is bitter that her home country of India submitted the extravagant Bollywood musical Lagaan to the Oscars this year, instead of her own Monsoon Wedding.

Lagaan did indeed go on to grab one of the five coveted slots in the Oscars' best foreign-language-film category. Only one entry is allowed from each country.
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