Extended family members arrive from all over the globe, wedding planner P.K. The film opens with preparations in full swing in the final days leading up to the ceremony. The wedding in question is an arranged marriage between an affluent, young New Delhi woman Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das) and Hermant Rai (Parvin Dabas), a Houston-based engineer. (1) The film also marks something of a change in directorial perspective, representing the filmmaker’s first concerted exploration of the middle class New Delhi milieu of which she herself is a product. Winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, Nair’s success was the first time in more than four decades that an Indian production had won the award. Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding (2001) is the most recent contribution to the burgeoning nuptial film genre. Hogan’s Muriel’s Wedding (1994) and My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) connubial bliss has provided a rich source of contemporary melodramatic and comic inspiration. From Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) and the British hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994) through to mainstream offerings such as P.J. Given such varied possibilities, it is hardly surprising that weddings have featured consistently on the cinema screen, and no more so than in recent years. It offers unlimited potential for old family hostilities to resurface, romantic sparks to fly between members of the wedding party, other than the betrothed, and for plenty of other ‘backstage’ intrigues. A wedding is in many ways the penultimate dramatic premise-a family gathering on a large scale that is invariably accompanied by significant tensions, along with the requisite celebrations.

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