Holi Movie Marathon

Saturday, March 2All DayRoadrunner RoomThomas Branigan Memorial Library200 E. Picacho Ave., Las Cruces, NM, 88001

In honor of Holi, join us for a series of Bollywood movies. There's always going to be singing and dancing.

Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love and Spring. It celebrates celebrates the arrival of Spring in India, the end of winter, and the blossoming of love. It is also an invocation for a good spring harvest season. It lasts for a night and a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (Full Moon Day) falling in the Hindu calendar month of Phalguna, which falls around the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar. This year, it's March 25th.

10:30 am - Monsoon Wedding (2001) Rated R, 1 hour 54 minutes - Sparks fly when an extended Punjabi Indian family gathers for a four-day celebration in preparation for an arranged marriage.

12:30 pm - Saawariya (2007) Rated PG, 2 hours 22 minutes - A shy musician falls for an unhappy woman who is waiting for her absent lover to return in this lush Bollywood musical inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "White Nights."

3pm - The Lunchbox (2013) Rated PG, 1 hour 44 minutes - A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

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