October 19‚ 2004 English 102 A Wedding in a Monsoon and a Monsoon of a Wedding Marriage is an institution that has spanned time. In India it is one of their many traditions. It has changed lives for the better and for the worse. I will be looking at two different art forms that display marriage in two different sights. One will be Monsoon Wedding‚ a Mira Nair film‚ which portrays marriage‚ specifically arranged marriage‚ in a way that looks on the tradition not as a thing of the past but a
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improved living conditions‚ and better education are some of the reasons behind the move. Enter Mira Nair‚ an Indian-American filmmaker who migrated to the United States at the age of 19 with a full scholarship to Harvard University. Nair started her film-making career in the late 70s where she produced
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Monsoon wedding”(2007)‚ an award winning movie‚ directed by mira nair. Features widely known Indian actors‚ such as Vasundhara Das‚ Naseeruddin Shah and Vijay Raaz. The film is based on the autobiographical account of Mira Nair’s own family.( Manish Gajjar 2002) It is about a stressed father‚ a bride-to-be with a secret‚ a smitten events coordinator‚ and relatives from around the world who create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India (IMDB). The excellent exploitaation
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Narrative o The film’s narrative is constructed around the erection of the wedding tent by PK Dubey. o The romance entanglements of the Punjabi family is played out against this "manufactured" nuptial event. o traces five intersecting stories‚ each navigating through different aspects of love of during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi. In essence: o The love between a couple married for 25 years‚ teenage lust‚ the bride’s tryst with her lover the night before her arranged marriage to
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English 233 November 14th 2012 Globalization: Monsoon Wedding In the film Monsoon Wedding the theme of globalization is displayed as a constant battle between the preservation of cultural tradition vs. the social change that evolves through modernism. On the outer shell the film focuses on the arranged marriage put together for Lalit Verma’s daughter Aditi and the difficulties of throwing such a large wedding party. Yet at the core the film focuses on difficult situations characters are put
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In the movie Monsoon Wedding‚ there were many examples of Indian culture and how things were done there and the way that they differ from our culture. The sociological theory that best explains the way that society functions in this movie is the symbolic interaction theory. Symbolic interaction is shown by the example of how Ria is unmarried and wants to go to college which is against the norm of society‚ she is the symbol of the western type of life and shows how India is beginning to move towards
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Monsoon Wedding‚ a Bollywood film directed by Mira Nair and released in 2001‚ earned just above $30 million at the box office [1]. The film brilliantly depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi‚ while delicately handling sensitive issues such as child-abuse‚ pre-arranged marital infidelity‚ growing old and striving to be different as an upper middle class Indian boy‚ or being a flirtatious‚ bored but basically settled NRI (non-resident Indian) housewife. The film
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Laos Wedding When I watched the Thai movie Lao Wedding‚ I remembered Khru Poi’s wedding and compared how similar the weddings are. The movie’s premise is very interesting. The movie started with the female protagonist‚ seen as anxious and nervous about the wedding. She called her fiancé and we learned that they haven’t really been together for so long yet they will marry. The male protagonist is a magazine writer/photographer form Thailand while the girl is from Laos. The guy is sure about their
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The potential and actualized violence discussed in The Modern Middle East and seen in Rana’s Wedding‚ reflect the tension of the war. In Rana’s Wedding‚ Rana is kicking a can when she comes across three men staring at her. She walked with trepidation and uncertainty past them. When viewing this you question what she is uncertain or afraid of. It may be of what the men may
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Definition of a Monsoon: The word "monsoon" is come from the Arabic word call “mausim" which means season. The Ancient traders sailing in the Indian Ocean and adjoining Arabian Sea used it to describe a system of alternating winds which blow persistently from the northeast during the northern winter and from the opposite direction‚ the southwest‚ during the northern summer. How does Monsoon form? Monsoons are caused primarily by variation in temperature over large areas of land than over
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