New York Post by Jonathan Foreman

Sheer delight. An ensemble comedy-drama that recalls Robert Altman's best work.

San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Meyer

Contains an incest story line that's disturbing but shouldn't scare people away. Nair handles the subject with such grace and sensitivity that it becomes just another element in this complex celebration of family.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater.

Time by Richard Schickel

They bring their characters to good, slightly surprising, quite satisfying places. And leave us beaming happily.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

Nair is not making a caricature out of Lalit or anyone else. She's inviting us into the inner recesses of her culture. And it's both pleasure and privilege to be one of her guests.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Nair's movie, far from being paste, is a string of small, exquisite gems.

Washington Post by Ann Hornaday

Exploding on the screen in a riot of movement, music and color.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Has an engaging warmth and an effortless sense of life. It also has an instinct for the humanity and universality of situations that are comic, romantic and quite seriously dramatic by turns.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

The film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Delighted me like few films I've seen recently. It's a sexy, sweet, sumptuously entertaining movie about the huge and wildly eventful wedding reception.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature.

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

Nair, who, in this film as in so many others, aims for the beating heart of the predictable movie moment.

New Times (L.A.) by Jean Oppenheimer

Pulsates with music, dance, color and laughter, but also glows with quiet moments of drama.

Slate by David Edelstein

When the groom's enormous procession fights its way through the hard rain and muck to the bejeweled bride, Nair's chaos downright sparkles.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Fans of Robert Altman's hit "Gosford Park" will find similar pleasures here: colorful characters, multiple story lines, and clever blends of comedy and drama.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

Eminently disposable, but that's its charm. It stays with you just long enough to make you smile.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

An air-conditioned bus tour of Punjabi ritual. Nair stuffs the film with dancing, henna, ornamentation, and group song, but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera.