This week’s topics cover Kinship and Marriage. Kinship is the blood relationship between people. Marriage is the union between man and women as partners in a relationship. The two films that were assigned are “Life, Above All”, directed by Oliver Schmitz and “Monsoon Wedding,” directed by Mira Nair. Both films tied into this week’s topics and also had similarities between them. To start off, the first film “Life, Above All” tells the story of a South African girl named Chanda. Chanda is a very smart girl and pretty outspoken. Her family experiences disaster when her baby sister unexpectedly dies. Heartbroken, her mother, Lilian, cannot stand the loss of her child. It is up to Chanda to watch over her youngest siblings while her mother
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Lalit Verma is arranging a marriage for his daughter Aditi. Aditi has mixed feelings about the wedding because she just ended an affair with a married TV producer and is unsure about her feelings for him. As the story goes on, we see family from both sides starting to come together to get ready for the events of the marriage. The groom is an Indian that lives in Texas and is coming back to India to meet his bride for the first time. A man named P.K Dubey is in charge of arranging the decorations and set up for the wedding. He is always running around and changing things so that they fit with Lalit 's request. P.K Dubey soon finds himself falling in love with the houses maid and attempts to court her on many occasions. Throughout the story, the family becomes more and more stressed, and frustration starts to show. Ria Verma Cousin of the bride begins to have her suspicions about her uncle when he sees her alone with the youngest daughter. At the end of the film, we learn that this uncle raped Ria and has been keeping it secret ever since. Confused and hurt by what he has learned Lalit makes the decision to have the uncle removed from the wedding. After removing the relative from the wedding, it is around this time that we see P.K. Dubey wanting to marry the maid, and she accepts. The wedding continues as planned and things start to look better for the family, and they grow more accepting of each other. They welcome P.K Dubey to join them in the celebration and also celebrate his new marriage as well. The film ends with everyone dancing and enjoying the party in the rain. (Nair
Lalit Verma is arranging a marriage for his daughter Aditi. Aditi has mixed feelings about the wedding because she just ended an affair with a married TV producer and is unsure about her feelings for him. As the story goes on, we see family from both sides starting to come together to get ready for the events of the marriage. The groom is an Indian that lives in Texas and is coming back to India to meet his bride for the first time. A man named P.K Dubey is in charge of arranging the decorations and set up for the wedding. He is always running around and changing things so that they fit with Lalit 's request. P.K Dubey soon finds himself falling in love with the houses maid and attempts to court her on many occasions. Throughout the story, the family becomes more and more stressed, and frustration starts to show. Ria Verma Cousin of the bride begins to have her suspicions about her uncle when he sees her alone with the youngest daughter. At the end of the film, we learn that this uncle raped Ria and has been keeping it secret ever since. Confused and hurt by what he has learned Lalit makes the decision to have the uncle removed from the wedding. After removing the relative from the wedding, it is around this time that we see P.K. Dubey wanting to marry the maid, and she accepts. The wedding continues as planned and things start to look better for the family, and they grow more accepting of each other. They welcome P.K Dubey to join them in the celebration and also celebrate his new marriage as well. The film ends with everyone dancing and enjoying the party in the rain. (Nair