Bride without Bling
Daughter of industrialist couple Mallika and Venu Srinivasan, Lakshmi Venu, 26, who married Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy's son Rohan Murthy, 28, this year, shunned bling at her wedding reception in Bangalore. She chose a simply designed indigo lehnga gown with an embroidered dupatta. A single diamond necklace and some bangles were all that the bride wore as accessories. An heiress as well as the vice-president (global business developement and strategy), in the holding company of her father's TVS Motors, she could have easily been the predictable bride with designer wedding couture and heavy, South Indian gold jewellery. No, thank you, she said.
Big is Big
Ram Kapoor, the plus-sized lead actor of Sony's hit TV serial Bade Achhe Lagte Hain goes on to become a heckling husband. He could have well been a villain. Instead, he is the protagonist, in love at 40, at odds with his restive personality, a man trapped between ponderous duty and lightheaded love for a wife he chose through a bumpy, arranged marriage. He weighs more than hundred kilos but is lovingly irritable, sweet, committed, impatient, domineering, rich. Heavy duty, no?
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