Families meet in Delhi for an arranged marriage between Aditi Verma (daughter of Lalit and Pimmi Verma) and Hemant Rai.PK Dubey is the lower class, foul-mouthed, wedding arranger who is interested in the maid, Alice. Lalit is having money trouble; this translates to slow payments to PK.Ria Verma is the unmarried cousin of Aditi, who was abused by Tej Puri when she was younger.Aditi decides to visit her old flame one last time. That does not work out well, and reminds one of the phrase, 'get a room.' The police were quite amused. Aditi tells Hemant about this. Oh, what a mistake. He tells her that they will just fit in Houston, Texas, where he currently works. He is not amused. He decides to go through with it, and I did not see any particular believable justification for that change of heart.At that point in the movie, I was ready to quit. Slow, boring, not engaging, no sympathetic characters, except perhaps Lalit and PK. Then it gets worse; the child molestation issue was not handled well.Happy ending, I guess. Things turned out well for PK.-----Scores------Cinematography: 7/10 Variable.Sound: 8/10 Good most of the time.Acting: 6/10 Cheers to Naseerruddin Shah (Lalit), Tillotama Shome (Alice), Vijay Raaz (PK). Thumbs down otherwise, particularly for the actors who played the bride and groom.Screenplay: 6/10 Neither engaging nor believable. The story is rather good, so I would blame the direction, plus poor choices for many of the acting roles.

Apart from a colorful marriage(which every marriage in Indo Pak subcontinent is..and may be more than that).The movie doesn't hold anything else.If you want to see good Indian movie then watch Lagaan or Swades.I guess no one in the West has seen wedding movie like "Hum Apkay hein Kon" who are howling for this movie.Very Good Soundtrack.The additional stories(good ones and thats why i think they should have been given more time) are added and scrapped out just to fill out the time.For example the maid wearing jewelery of the bride and mistaken for stealing it.Now in normal scenario those servants would have told the Bride's Father and the poor maid would have been kicked out.The feeling of Monsoon was the thing i liked a lot .For those who haven't seen Indian marriages,it will be something extraordinary(like My Big Fat Greek Wedding was for me) and not much for those who attend these marriages all the year.

So she's gone off with her lover for one last tryst, then, in a panic, drives off in his car.And nothing happens? The police don't follow her home? The lover doesn't come to get his car back? The family never finds out? Lovely film, but that one plot point made me wonder more than a little.I was also thrown a bit by the multitude of characters at the very start: so many plots, so few of them really well developed. The son (I gather by a previous marriage?) that the father always calls "idiot". The lightly discussed child abuse by the scion of the wealthy side of the family. The father's having to turn to his golfing buddies for cash to pay for this extravaganza. Couple that with the characters themselves never really all that well defined, and it's mass confusion for the first hour. Finally it all gets sorted out, and we can move on to the wedding, but it still felt to sketchy: the overly understanding groom, the final-frame "happily ever after", the wedding organizer's quickie wedding as well... it just felt thrown together.

It's surprising how often the ratings belie the movie or vice versa. This movie is an entertaining collection of love stories which deftly cuts across so many barriers,whether they be cultural, social, class or religion. It is funny in a very real and potent way and the character development has been executed to great details in an effortless fashion. That probably is one of the hallmarks of a really gifted director.The story revolves around the preparations of an Indian arranged marriage. The main characters are the bride,her father and a marriage arrangement contractor. All dealing with their own constraints and still trying to give their hopes wings. What is remarkable is that this movie has characters who show courage when they have a lot to lose and win higher rewards like love,trust and self-respect in the process. Kudos to the Monsoon wedding team!