Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair's exuberant Monsoon Wedding (2001), a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama built around the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family's only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches – Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she's never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father's hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck – as well as buried family secrets. But Nair's celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family. A Golden Lion winner at Venice, the film also landed prizes at The British Independent Film Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards, amongst a fair few other nominatins and prizes.

Monsoon Wedding will be released on US 2-disc DVD and (region A) Blu-ray by Criterion on 13th October 2009 at the SRP of $39.95 each. Featuring a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of photography Declan Quinn, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, both eaditions will have the following extras:

• Audio commentary featuring director Mira Nair;
• Nair's short documentaries So Far from India (1983), India Cabaret (1985), and The Laughing Club of India (2001), featuring video introductions by the director;
• Nair's short fiction films The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993), 11'09"01—September 11 (Segment: "India") (2002), Migration (2007), and How Can It Be? (2008), featuring video introductions by the director;
• New video interview with actor Naseeruddin Shah, conducted by Nair;
• New video interviews with Quinn and production designer Stephanie Carroll;
• Theatrical trailer;
• New and improved English subtitle translation;
• An essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer.