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appalachiablue

(42,641 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 02:05 PM Jul 31

'You Have to Fight the Battle' Dance Scene, Monsoon Wedding, 2001 Film, Mira Nair



Rahul Chadha : I just fell from grace.

Saroj Rai : My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able to fall. I mean, if you keep sitting on your ass, nothing's gonna happen.

"Only brave warriors fall off their horses in battle. How can kneeling cowards know what a fall is?"

Listen sweetheart, the main thing is, you have to fight the battle.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265343/characters/nm0393535
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🌸 Wiki. Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 comedy-drama film directed by Mira Nair. The story depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi Hindu wedding in Delhi. Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vasundhara Das.

The film's central story deals with the organisation of an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding that is due to take place in a modern Indian family. Roger Ebert rated the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it “one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature.”
The soundtrack includes a Punjabi song by Sukhwinder Singh, an old Indian song by Rafi, a folk dance song...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon_Wedding
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