I know, i know, it is criminal but to alleviate the seriousness of my offence, i confess- i watch reality shows! Not all of them, but some. They are anyday better than the sad, run of the mill 'serials'. Enough in my defence!
The latest one that i have started following is the 3-crore Wedding. Honestly, having attended only 3 weddings in the family in the last 14 years (what a shame!), I have no clue how much do weddings in India cost now. But i am enjoying watching all the ceremonies, all the 'functions', all the banter within the families that is normal at these times, trousseau shopping, and what not. I am enjoying looking at all that greasy, heavy food and all the sweets, and all the 'inside' emotions of extended families, which do point to one fact, money rules!!! The groom-to-be is cute and the bride is shy. The overweight relatives are happy in their skin and keep on repeating that it is a 3-crore wedding and they have to look the part. Both sets of parents look adorably protective of their child's interest, especially the girl's mother. Can a normal daily soap compete with the more convincing, even if scripted, cunningness of first cousins and their wives?? I doubt! The clothes shopping made the relatives ask, rather frankly, for their own personal budgets. The gold shopping is still pending, and i am waiting to see whether the wicked plan of relatives to get the Wedding Jewellery budget allocated in their favour will work or not? More than anything else, the bride and the groom-to-be seem to be so much in love that this wedding speaks in favour of the traditional 'ARRANGED' Indian marriages!
mmmm...I am loving it!
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