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Monsoon Wedding

2001 · directed by Mira Nair · 114 min
22,786 feet · Prominence
1,361st of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw50

$31m worldwide in 2001 — $57m in today's money.

As released$31mIn 2026 money$57mRank3,559 of 8,589In 200187 of 189

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise86

Critics 86, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 86.

Critics86 → 43Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy33

Judged directly: Warm crossover hit, modest endurance.

Verdict33 of 100IMDb7.3 from 28kWikipedia29k views a monthAge25 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,644 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 50 praise 86 legacy 33averages 56, which places it at22,786 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vasundhara Das.