Big Fat Indian Wedding of Parvati and Mahadev.

Anyone who doesn't love a big, blingy, multi-tiered wedding (with at least seven events - shagun, sagai, tilak, mehndi, sangeet, pheras, bidaai - have I forgotten anything?), please raise your hand. Or hold your peace forever. And definitely don't watch Hindi serials. In the last few weeks, a record number of shows have got / are getting their leads married / remarried. If you're still asking "but why?" here's the answer: shaadis fetch big-time ratings. Viewers love watching weddings on TV and then replicating them in real life (that's why so many actual weddings look like they just teleported out of a TV screen - but that's another story. Suffice to say that TV visuals of shaadis have become the real thing now. For instance, the visual of the bride tipping over a rice-filled kalash with her foot before entering her sasural has become the default wedding symbol today - but to which part of India does this ritual belong? I asked around and nobody seems to know. Could some kind reader enlighten me?).

The Wedding No. 1 award should definitely go to (roll of drums): the celestial union of Shiv and Parvati in Devon Ke Dev Mahadev (Life OK) which went on for so long, it seemed like an entire yug had passed before the two were finally declared man (god?) and wife. But the grand wedding pushed the show right up the ratings chart and yes, the sensory overload - the costumes, the jewellery, the profusion of flowers, flags and trishuls -- made for rather heavenly viewing too. Shiv is a powerful and charismatic god but he is also Bholenath - an innocent when it comes to worldly rituals and customs. Yet he, along with his ganas, decides to go through the entire gamut of wedding ceremonies, big and small, for Parvati's sake, often with endearing results. (Asked to give something he holds very dear to him as a shagun, he unfurls the snake from his neck. Unsurprisingly, Parvati's mother faints on the spot). Special mention: Mohit Raina, who plays Shiv with an appealing mix of serenity and strength, is the one man-pillar of this show.

Hindustan Times Link: Everybody loves a big fat Indian wedding

This article was the first thing I read in the morning & loved it. The writer is generally very cynical about everything. Im glad she is all praise for Mohit ☺️

Yeah I think she is cynical about the fact most Indian shows revolve around weddings and the grandeur which is true coz if not weddings than it is the various festivals that are celebrated elaborately.
But Parvati and Mahadev wedding had to be elaborate and grand as it was the first Hindu vedic wedding and it was so beautifully done.
Mohit deserves all the praise as he is the torch bearer and the pillar of strength for the show like the writer describes him to be. 😊

Mohit is the charm of this episode. My hats of to him.

TFS. It was the best and the most grand wedding on television. It was very beautiful. 😊

It was the most lavish wedding till date on Indian television. I agree 😊

Originally posted by: Arnav90

Thnxxx thats amazing...