ABSTRACT ' 'We are like that only ' '-runs the subtitle of a popular production of Mira Nair, representing Indians today. Released in 2001, Monsoon Wedding is Nair 's ' 'love song to my home city". Through a reworking of the tropes of Bollywood cinema, a medium that connects the global audience, Nair 's film depicts the enthusiasm coupled with certain darker shades, more so in the midst of a wedding, of a Punjabi middle class family in contemporary India. Set in the metropolitan city of Delhi, this family is found to be negotiating between ideologies and traditions typical to our country and the practice of modernized existence as a mark of their social standing. At times, they are unable to grapple with it no doubt, but as Nair asserts, that is how we exactly are! Her camera captures a realistic picture of every Indian middle class household that suffers this cultural neurosis in their strife to portray themselves as modernized …show more content…
The effect of mimicry is camouflage..."(Lacan 120). This is precisely the point at which the movie begins as Lalit instructs his nephew to switch on his car 's A.C only after he has received his guests from abroad while prohibiting him from using it otherwise. With the recent introduction of the commodity culture, that is nevertheless embraced, there is an overt insistence on gloss. Lalit goes beyond his means to hire an event manager to arrange a high-profile wedding for his daughter even if it exhausts him of his resources. He would prefer borrowing money from his friends rather than compromising with the waterproofing of the wedding tent. There is a constant anxiety about playing the part of certain
Socio cultural position, of living up to a standard that is both socially imposed and