Producer: Caroline BAron, Mira Nair
Director:  Mira Nair
Cast:  Lilett Dubey, Naseeruddin Shah, Vasundhara Das
Music: Mychael Danna

‘Monsoon Wedding’ is Mychael Danna's second association with film director Mira Nair after ‘Kama Sutra’. And he has again compiled a winning soundtrack. Danna explores a wide range of emotions, from solemn to celebratory, through different generations of Indian culture.

The beauty of this album lies in the fact it is wedding music. The music is upbeat, high energy, and filled with promise and expectation calling forth for a celebration of life. By combining pop tunes and traditional Hindi music, the whole spectrum of Indian is featured on one album. It contains a qawwali worship piece, ‘Allah Hu’ which is song by Pakistan’s most famous singers, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. ‘Aaj Mera Jee Kardana’, ‘Gur Naal Ishq Meetha’ and ‘Mera Laung Gawacha’ is an amazing number from the Punjabi heartland and includes bhangra pop/rock sounds along with dance rhythms.

The contemplative ‘Aaj Jaane Ji Zid Na Karo’ feature Danna's trademark piano ambience over traditional Indian instrumentation, the vivacious ‘Aaja Nachle’ and ‘Chunari Chunari’ sounding rocking Punjabi numbers, while ‘Fabric’ and ‘Fuse Box’ ventures into dreamy ethno-techno territory. Sukhwinder Singh's ‘Aaj Mera Jee Karda’ serves up lively bhangra rock, and Laxmikant Pyarelal's ‘Aaj Mausam Bada Beimaan Hai’ performed by Mohammed Rafi swoons with strings and male vocals. In all, the soundtrack's pleasing variety of Eastern music mirrors the film's old and new worlds living within a singular culture. Another great song is the solo and group song featured at the mehndi called Madohorama Pencha’ performed by Madan Bala Sindhu.

The music stands alone as an outstanding collection of energetic, exciting, exotic sounding music. There are tunes and Indian phrases, which will stay in your mind and cheer you up the rest of the day as you hum the sounds or sing the phrases. It is a great mixture of what is best about Indian music which combines the latest bhangra pop features which are highly danceable along with traditional/classic music of the past including ghazals which tell a most soulful and haunting story.