Saturday, April 21, 2007

The Great Indian Wedding

This whole Ash-Abishek affair has gone too long, so much that its reached a point of irritation. Thank God they got married soon. Seems it was quite a private affair, with a guest list of about 150 people, with the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Ambani attending the wedding. Yes, it was quite a grand wedding...what with mehendi for Aishwarya Rai brought from Rajasthan, the who's who on the guest list, festivities going on till 3 AM in the morning...yes its all very fine.
It seems the whole affair had all the makings of a perfect bollywood movie. The affair, hyped by Indian media as “the wedding of the century,” was filled with the melodrama so beloved in Bollywood, India's flamboyant Hindi film industry: secrecy, dance routines and even a suicidal fan who claimed to be the groom's jilted lover. The whole thing actually looks very funny if one were to take a step back and look at it from an outsider's point of view. Aren't they also the same ordinary mortals that we are? I wonder of Aishwarya Rai's hands would have developed a permanent rash if she did not have flown in mehendi from Rajasthan. Some people just don't know what to do with their money!
But then again, its not their fault that the wedding was so hyped up. Blame the media for sensationalizing this marriage. I mean...its just another marriage isn't it? I'm not saying that it should not be reported(thats what the media should do...I should know..I study journalism!), but why take it to wholly different level of celebrating it more than the Bachhans and the Rais themselves?? Why don't they just stop with reporting it?

Hmm...I wonder what the media might say if they get divorced...that would be fun!

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