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| An elegant, power wedding | | | ON my way to Bombay, I realised that I was going for a ‘high funda’, power-packed wedding. After all, the daughter of Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel was marrying the son of senior leader and former Congress Minister of Karnataka R. V. Deshpande. Praful’s daughter is an architect and Deshpande’s son is a lawyer.
The sangeet at the Grand Hyatt was a grand affair. The entrance saw celebrities like Jyoti Aditya Scindia, Shobhana Bhartia, Farooq Abdullah, Imran Khan, Margaret Alva and Rajat Sharma, along with the regular page-3 guys.
A little towards the bar one saw the Mumbaiwalas like Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan, Anupam Kher Sunil Gavaskar and then, of course, the business tycoons like Lakshmi Mittal and Kotak Mahindra. The afternoon wedding at the Taj saw Gulam Nabi Azad, Vilas Raj Desmukh, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, Rahul Bajaj and many others. There was vegetarian food, great ambience and it was all so traditional.
Then, of course, came the huge reception at the Turf Club which saw a rain of celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachan, Amar Singh, Rajat Sharma, Aroon Poori and Udhav Thackrey. Keeping in mind the security hassle for VVIPs, surprisingly, there were no traffic jams, and no waiting in lines for the cars. Drinks and food were in plenty and no special enclosures for the VVIPs, as it is usually done in Delhi. This was a welcome change. Everybody mixed with everyone without any hassels.
All is not over yet. There is a reception for the newly weds in Bangalore, then one in Praful’s constituency in Maharashtra and one in Delhi too. So, some more celebrations and some more intermingling of politicians, Bollywood, cricketers and industrialists.
But my vote in all this goes to Praful’s chief Sharad Pawar and his daughter the new MP. He remained in the background through every function. Just being a part of the family and celebrations was enough for him. Well, simple, elegant and so power-packed were these three days, without any flashy stuff.
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