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單元名稱 1. Monsoon Wedding 簡介與引導問題☆
單元類型
單元指引 Main Characters:
Lalit Verma The father
Pimmi Verma The mother.
Hemant Rai The groom.

The daughters --
1. Ria Verma -- unmarried writer cousin of the bride. As she watches Aditi plunge recklessly into marriage, Ria begins to assert herself to her family, defying convention and revealing a disturbing secret she has suppressed for years.
2. Aditi Verma The bride; on the rebound from an aborted love affair with her former boss, VIKRAM (42), agrees to marry HEMANT (32), an engineer from Houston. Suddenly apprehensive about becoming a housewife in Texas, Aditi re-visits her lover the day before the wedding, throwing her future into turmoil.
3. Aliya Verma --the little girl
4. Ayesha Verma a sexy Delhi 'babe' who meets RAHUL (19), a sophomore at the University of Sydney returning to India after five years.

P.K.Dubey-- the upwardly mobile Tent and Catering contractor for the elaborate wedding celebrations.
.... Alice
.... C.L.Chadha
.... Shashi Chadha
.... Tej Puri
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Monsoon Wedding(雨季的婚禮)中文情節摘要:
故事以Lalit Verma一家對女兒Aditi婚事籌備為主線,描繪Verma家族人際間的互動與其衝突隱憂,其中含括已訂婚的Aditi和一位有婦之夫(Vikram)未斷之戀情,Aditi和其未婚夫Hemant情感間之互動,Lalit與其妻Pimmi對兒子Varun教養方式之衝突,長期以來資助Verma家庭經濟之友人Tej和Lalit姪女Ria、 Aliya間之性侵害問題,Lalit姪女Ayesha與Mohan (Rahul?)間曖昧的情感關係。另外又穿插幫Verma家族備辦婚禮事誼的承包商P.K. Dubey與女僕Alice間戀情之發展。隨著婚禮的籌備和歌舞儀式之呈現,各項衝突得以揭露、化解或延緩,全片由婚禮在雨中歡愉完成而告終。
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