Mira Nair Plans to Bring MONSOON WEDDING to Qatar

Filmmaker Mira Nair has said that she plans to bring the musical adaptation of her 2001 film The Monsoon Wedding to Qatar.

The unique stage adaptation opened in Berkley, California, last year.

Monsoon Wedding features a book by Sabrina Dhawan, music by Vishal Bhardwaj, and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Nair said of the production, "Now, in the time of Trump, the doors are literally closing between borders. What we are bringing to you in Monsoon Wedding, the play, is a portrait of two things: an India that is complicatedly becoming a sort of real power, but also a portrait of America, since half our story is about America - an America that may not even let us in."

No dates have been announced just yet for the Qatar run.

Monsoon Wedding (with a screenplay by Sabrina Dhawan) was one of the first major Indian films from outside of Bollywood to break through to American audiences back in 2001. The drama balances five romances, an exuberantly planned wedding, and a sad but ultimately redemptive story of intra-family abuse.

Photo Credit: Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre