印度新德里的一家人正在筹备女儿阿迪特(瓦塞达拉Vasundhara Das 饰)出嫁的婚礼。父亲拉里特(纳萨鲁丁•沙 Naseeruddin Shah 饰)为她选定的如意郎君是从美国留学回来的富商之子海蒙特。然而,阿迪特并不开心,因为她还有一个在电视台做主持人的情人,并且是个有妇之夫。所以她一面在父母的督促下准备婚礼,一方面又要偷偷跟意中人约会…… 婚礼还改变了很多人的命运:婚礼设计师杜比跟女仆爱丽丝机缘巧合,堕入爱河;阿迪特的表妹跟澳大利亚的留学生打得火热;阿迪特的姑丈泰迦表示要资助她的表姐丽尔出国留学。然而,丽尔并不领情,反而极力反对女儿跟泰迦相处,因为她隐瞒了一段不堪回首的往事…… 本片获第58届威尼斯电影节最佳影片金狮奖。A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organization, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and even a new romance for the wedding planner Dubey with the housemaid Alice...