Monsoon Wedding

Monsoon Wedding is about a marriage set in India. The couple isn't exactly the focal point here though. The movie has several plots with different people, but it all comes together and connects through this big Indian wedding. The people jump between Indian and English language and jumps from different character to different character, each scene is someone else until they mesh and the story becomes one. There are many different points of view, and I shall attempt to list them.

1. The Bride and Groom together
2. The Bride with her ex-boyfriend
3. The Bride's father, mother, and brother
4. The Wedding Planner dude and his love interest. (Maid in Bride's household)
5. Cousin to the Bride, Creepy Old Guy, and Little Girl. (He sexual harasses the little girl.)
6. A Sister of one family and a Brother of another family. (Love interests)
7. A mish mosh of individual scenes and combinations.
I apologize for not knowing any names, they are all Indian and pretty confusing, I didn't have a chance to write them down. I wouldn't have known who was who.

In the beginning I can tell this is a very loud, lively Indian family, but the Bride and Groom don't seem excited. I'm guessing the Groom is just nervous and the Bride is thinking of her "frolicking" with her ex-boyfriend. The families seem really well off financially since the Father of the Bride is paying a big sum for waterproofing of the wedding tent.

At a dinner people start talking of immigrating to American, like Valentino did! Except one guy who went seems happy about going there, and giving advice to one girl who wants to go learn creative writing. The Bride even wants to go, but is it to escape marriage and the Groom?

There are individual relationships between different people, multiple couples. The Wedding Planner falls for the Maid, and they both like to eat flowers. Does it mean something? Maybe they are meant for each other.

When the Groom finds out about the Bride and her Ex, he says, ...Screwing ex-boyfriend- but in American you'll fit right in!
Oh, harsh! Like Valentino talking about American culture in a negative way, unfortunately. The Bride and Groom end up talking it out and falling in love.

The Cousin and Little Girl were harassed by the same Creepy Old Guy and the Father (their Uncle, who raised them when their father died) feels horrible but from this he became closer to his wife, when their relationship was drifting in the beginning. The Father, or Uncle, refuses to separate Creepy Old Guy from family, but he still loves and cares for the Cousin and Little Girl.

All these conflicts and drama happened just days before the actual wedding. It concluded with:
1. Bride and Groom in love and get married
2. Bride and ex-boyfriend are completely over.
3. Father and Mother are happy, as is the Brother when he got to dance at the reception.
4. Wedding Planner and Maid end up happy together! Aww!
5. Uncle sends Creepy Old Guy away even before the wedding ceremony begins!
6. That young love interest is still just that. A young crush with each other.

In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the family was separated. Haroun was irritated by his father's unclear way of talking and spacey behavior, and his mother completely left the family. The Bride's family was similar in that they were separated. The Mother and Father quarrelled, the Bride was off doing her own thing, the Uncle and Cousin, who was violated by Creepy Old Guy when she was younger, were against each other. Yet they all came together just by a wedding, like Haroun's family came together by an adventure to Kahani.
Rain symbolized change within the movie. When it was raining there was a turn in the story. It was raining during the wedding actually.

The flowers could symbolize anything, I'm not sure. In the beginning the flowers could mean the brokenness of the family, the connection of the Wedding Planner and the Maid, and at the end the celebration of the wedding.