Bollywood ladies on Karva Chauth - Page 4

Originally posted by: ~angelz16~

@Poppy:-- Karva Chauth dates back alotttttttt before all this partition and stuff. Rest of wat you wrote is how you see it so your opinion so no comments from my side but the former part is true!

And yess, South Indians dont hve Karva Chauth. That is also correct!! =)

Originally posted by: poppy2009

As far as I know, the Deol's are Punjabi Jats! But what I find a bit mystifying is that Dharmendra's first wife keeps the fast, even as her husband committed bigamy and got married the second time...while staying legally married to his first wife! God knows, how a woman can get the strenght to fast for a man who shows such scant respect for his marriage!😕

Btw, I know a couple of Sikh women, who do keep fast for their husbands....I always thought that the entire Punjabi Community follows this ritual! Confused!

Originally posted by: poppy2009

Not all Hindu married women have to keep the fast!

Karva Chauth is typically a Punjabi festival, which was mainly observed by Punjabi Hindu's who lived in Lahore and Karachi, before Partition. After Independece, the migrant Punjabi population, settled mainly in Delhi, begin to observe this ritual and it caught on with the rest of the city and gradually spread across North India.

Karva Chauth is not even heard of in all of Southern and Eastern India (I mean, except in movies) and neither in the Western parts of Gujrat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Neither is it followed in UP. (Though in Rajasthan and UP, they follow Teej, which is pretty similar to Karva Chauth)

But many married and unmarried women keep the fast in good faith, since it has strong connotations with a woman's married life. As far as I know, its only Punjabi's and a few other North Indian communities which follow the proper ritual that takes place with the fasting, most of the others just stay without food and water and later break the fast after sighting the moon.

PS : Its a beautiful ritual, but no hard and fast rules. Just because a married woman doesn't observe the fast doesn't mean that any thunderbolt will come and fall on her hubby! Its all a matter of personal choice and belief.

PPS: I strongly belive that the whole craze for Karva Chauth began mostly after Aditya Chopra showcased it in DDLJ....a lot of women I knew, who hadn't even heard of the festival, began to observe it after watching the movie! Uptill then, it was a closely held community festival, just like hunderds of others that we have in India!

How come we dont have such a day for men ? So the husband can fast the whole day and pray for the longevity and well being of his wife ?After all the woman is the ghar ki lakshmi isnt it ?

Dont get me wrong, I love traditions and this seems like a nice one too but sometimes I feel that its always the woman praying and taking up fasts etc for the family , husband kids etc.

I am from Karnataka and we dont have Karva Chauth but we have something similar to it called Bheemana amavase - where the ladies fast etc etc and the men are supposed to present their wives sarees and gold at then end of it. So atleast the women get something tangible for their hard work :P

Originally posted by: qwww

How come we dont have such a day for men ? So the husband can fast the whole day and pray for the longevity and well being of his wife ?After all the woman is the ghar ki lakshmi isnt it ?

Dont get me wrong, I love traditions and this seems like a nice one too but sometimes I feel that its always the woman praying and taking up fasts etc for the family , husband kids etc.

I am from Karnataka and we dont have Karva Chauth but we have something similar to it called Bheemana amavase - where the ladies fast etc etc and the men are supposed to present their wives sarees and gold at then end of it. So atleast the women get something tangible for their hard work :P

For once I am loving Katrina Kaif's answer. 👏


Not that I follow traditions anyway, but I wouldn't fast for anyone intentionally. I have had unintentional fasts during undergrad due to heavy schedules though. Regardless, I'd rather run on the treadmill for 1 hour than stay hungry for some reason that makes no sense to me. 😊

Originally posted by: psychobalehead

Not that I follow traditions anyway, but I wouldn't fast for anyone intentionally. I have had unintentional fasts during undergrad due to heavy schedules though. Regardless, I'd rather run on the treadmill for 1 hour than stay hungry for some reason that makes no sense to me. 😊