At the 22nd Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht the renowned Indian director Mira Nair will deliver the eleventh Variety Cinema Militans Lecture. On Sunday 29 September at 5 pm she will present her vision on the future of cinema. The festival takes place from September 25 through October 4 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The fixed theme of the lecture, ‘the position and viability of cinema in the present age’, is an adaptation of the theme of Menno ter Braak’s essay ‘Cinema Militans’ from 1926. Ter Braak, who is considered the first Dutch film theoretician, is one of the founders of the Filmliga, along with other people like Joris Ivens.
Mira Nair’s Variety Cinema Militans Lecture will be published in the first edition of the Weekly Variety that will come out after the festival.

The premiere of HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS on 8/25 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT scored the highest rating (11.4/17) for an HBO Original Picture since the debut of IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK 2 (11.5/16; 3/5/00). HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS easily beat all cable and broadcast network competition in HBO homes during the time period.

Monsoon Wedding is nominated in the Best Foreign Film (Foreign language) category for the 5th Annual BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS, sponsored by Park Caledonia to be held Wednesday 30th October 2002 at Pacha, London, SW1

The British Independent Film Awards were set up to recognize the growing stature of the British Independent Film Industry in the UK and worldwide.

Nominees for the 59th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced today by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a 90-member organization that covers Hollywood for overseas publications. Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding was nominated in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category. Considered to be a strong indicator of Academy Award nominations in March, the Golden Globes will be awarded in a live broadcast from Hollywood, California. The other films nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category are Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amelie” (France), Walter Salles’ “Behind the Sun” (Brazil), Danis Tanovic’s “No Man’s Land” (Bosnia) and Alfonso Cuaron’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” (Mexico).

It’s official. MONSOON WEDDING, Mira Nair’s award-winning film is leading box office collections across India. With euphoric audiences going back for more, MONSOON WEDDING – after gathering major international acclaim - is rocking the box office in India. Despite formidable mainstream competition from Bollywood, MONSOON WEDDING is becoming possibly the first Indian crossover film to have met with such commercial - and critical - success. On Dec 20, 2001 MONSOON WEDDING was announced as a nominee for best foreign language film in the prestigious Golden Globe awards, also considered an indicator of likely Oscar nomination.

As per trade sources, the collections at the end of the second week of release were:

Mira Nair, who became India’s first female director to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for MONSOON WEDDING, feels validated by the response the film has received in India: “What matters to me, more than the Golden Lion, more than an Oscar, is how it is received at home.”

She has nothing to worry about. MONSOON WEDDING, released across India on November 30, 2001, is a film about an extended Punjabi family reuniting from around the globe for an arranged marriage. The wedding ceremonies running over five days intertwine with various love stories - the love between a couple married for 25 years, teen-age lust, and the bride’s tryst with her lover the night before her arranged marriage to another man. Song, dance, laughter and tears - the roller coaster of emotions that MW offers has audiences in India clamoring for more.