Why Mouni Roy threatened to cancel her performance at the Akash Ambani wedding at the last minute

Mouni Roy reportedly gave a tough time to the security officials at the recently-held Akash Ambani - Shloka Mehta Wedding

Indian business magnate Mukesh Ambani and wife Nita Ambani's son Akash Ambani's marriage to Shloka Mehta has been one of the biggest newsmakers of 2019 so far. Besides stunning pictures, what big fat Indian weddings bring along is a lot of gossip and the Ambani wedding was no different.

The wedding festivities are long over but the stories refuse to end. One such hot piece of gossip that's doing the rounds currently is how 'Naagin' actress Mouni Roy gave a hard time to the security officials.

Mouni Roy, who was supposed to perform on all four nights of the wedding, reportedly threatened to walk out of the Ambani wedding at the last minute and the reason will blow your mind.


Considering the wedding guest list included VVIPs from all walks of life, the security was on an all time high. All the guests were mandated to seal their mobile phones before entering the venue and while all other Bollywood celebs obliged, Roy allegedly refused to co-operate.

As per a report in SpotBoye, the 'Gold' actress refused to handover her phone to the guards for security checking. A guest present at the party informed the portal, "Mouni was not at all comfortable with her phone being locked, but, the condition was applicable to all the guests at the party and hence she had to agree to it."

Although Mouni gave in to their demands at the gate, she tried to remove the sticker once she entered the greenroom. "When the security officials came to address the situation, Mouni got extremely agitated and started arguing with the officers. After much persuasion, she had to get the sticker back on her phone," the source told SpotBoye.


The drama didn't end there. Mouni tried to get rid of the sticker once again, forcing the guards to rush back to the greenroom. When the agitated guards warned Mouni not to repeat it, she reportedly threw a tantrum and threatened to walk out of the wedding and cancel the performance.

"After a long argument, Mouni finally had to give in and of course, as the payments were all made in advance, she had to perform at the wedding and so she did," the SpotBoye source further added.

I think we can safely conclude that Mouni is extremely possessive about her mobile phone and we think she will check this clause with the event managers next time before agreeing to perform at any future wedding.

Grand weddings of semi-rural gentry inspired by Bollywood

In a country where the masses take their cues from film and cricket stars, these idols could have set a different example and help influence a more sensible thought process

In the wedding season, there’s almost never a day when the village opposite our house in Greater Noida isn’t resounding with DJ beats. The land on which our apartment complex is built once belonged to this village and our lives are interconnected with the local people in myriad ways. It is now a rich village as the farming land has been acquired by the government and the farmers have got the money they never imagined they would acquire in a few generations.  One fallout of this new-found prosperity is that the weddings have become ostentatious with the DJ playing well into midnight, firecrackers being lit in complete disregard to any court order and staggering multicuisine buffets.

Last month I attended one such wedding. The boy was unemployed but the family was nouveau riche, mainly earning from rental income. They had used their new money obtained by the sale of agricultural land to build a series of rooms that they leased out to migrant construction labourers from poorer states. The bride’s family had a similar rise to riches, in a neighbouring village. A Maruti Swift stood at the entrance of the pandal, with no attempt to hide the dowry. Practically anyone was able to reel off how much cash and how much gold was given by the bride’s father.

As the internet and TV melt borders between big cities and small and between urban and rural, wedding trends inspired by the rich and famous,  have spread far into the interiors. Only women above 60 seemed to be wearing saris. The rest were in lehengas, whose designs were copies of those worn by recent Bollywood brides. A young woman even wore a flowing blood red western style gown, which she told me she bought in Bilaspur, a town with less than fifty thousand people in Rampur district of UP. Food counters lined the perimeter of the venue. Two girls in jackets and trousers were welcoming guests handing over their dinner plates. I learnt that they were part of the catering company, hired from Delhi. An innovative locally crafted roti machine was presenting one hot roti after another in an assembly line. An entire mithai shop had been transplanted offering every possible traditional north  Indian confectionary. Fireworks lit up the night sky while the dance floor throbbed with dancing women and their children keeping step.


This family belonged to the Gurjar community, once upon a time nomads, who then became farmers, and now are just prosperous people spending the windfall they had landed as a result of urbanization.

Ramanand, an old relative recounted the weddings of the Gurjars, just about fifteen years ago. “Ek mombatti ki roshni mein ho jaati thi shaadi” he said. Generators were not ubiquitous, so in power-starved UP, entire streets were not lit up like they had done that night. Caterers were unheard of in the village; the women of the house would cook all the delicacies. Land deals had changed everything. The profile of the guests was different too. Many ex-farmers were now residents of building ‘societies’ doing office jobs or owning small businesses. Their children went to well-known schools of the area and while they retained a link with the village, their lifestyle and appearance were more similar to the urban educated middle class.

The practice of multiple grand functions was unheard of in these parts previously. There would be only one formal event of the actual wedding. However, the party I was attending that evening was a post-wedding reception, a practice borrowed from outside their milieu.

The standards of how much is good enough have zoomed upwards in semi-urban societies, which being close to metro cities, are aspirational but are also sufficiently traditional to retain their strong community ties. The most adverse impact has been on those villagers who have not benefitted from land sales but are not spared the pressure to keep up when it comes to weddings. A driver who conducted his daughter’s wedding a year ago had the same number of items in the buffet as the one in this prosperous Gujjar wedding. “Every item has to be there- that Moradabadi dal, the hot kadhai milk and the coffee in the end, else there will be questions.” These pressures force the poor in the village to borrow from creditors and remain in debt for years.

The gargantuan wedding celebrations of 2017/18 of Deepika-Ranveer, Virat-Anushka, Priyanka-Nick and the Ambani heirs that became newsworthy around the world have only reinforced the  ‘big is beautiful’ credo, among communities in interior India. In a country where the masses take their cues from  film and cricket stars, these idols could have set a different example and help influence a more sensible thought process.

Akash Ambani - Shloka Mehta wedding inspires a hysterical meme fest on Twitter

Ambani wedding 2.0 made sure that India doesn't run out of meme material for atleast a month

On Saturday, the eldest son of business tycoon Mukesh Ambani, Akash Ambani got hitched to Shloka Mehta, daughter of diamantaire Russell Arunbhai Mehta. It was dubbed as the 'wedding of the year' and rightfully so!

From the winter wonderland themed-decor, the stellar guest list to the extravagant performances - everything about the Ambani wedding 2.0 was beyond extra.

While the fashion police cannot stop discussing who wore what, we couldn't help but notice the meme fest that the wedding has inspired.


From Google CEO Sundar Pichai flying down from the US to attend the wedding, Nita Ambani and Mukesh Ambani twinning to Karan Johar dancing his heart out with Hardik Pandya post the 'Koffee With Karan' controversy - all the 'Bin Bulaaye Baraatis' seem to be having the last laugh on Twitter. 

Nusrat Jahan's 'White Wedding' is straight out of a fairytale

Bengali actress and TMC MP Nusrat Jahan who had a stunning wedding according to traditional Indian culture on 19th June had a second round of wedding next day. It was a 'White Wedding' where her husband Nikhil Jain went down on his knees and the lady gladly said 'yes I do'.

The pictures from the 'White Wedding' and some of the videos from the previous day are now available on Instagram and it surely looks like Nusrat, Nikhil and the entire entourage had an absolute blast in Bodrum, Turkey. Nusrat Jahan is the first actress from Bengali film industry who had a destination wedding although it has become a trend of sorts in Bollywood.

Their dreamy wedding in picturesque Turkey was attended by their close family. Only Mimi Chakraborty, fellow TMC MP was the lone invited from Tollywood. Incidentally, both the new MPs missed taking the oath when the 17th Lok Sabha started proceeding last week. Nusrat and Nikhil will officially get married on 25th June and they are throwing a gala bash in Kolkata on 4th July, where the prominent faces from political and entertainment world of Bengal are expected to attend.

The wedding took place at Six Place Kapalankaya, a luxury resort located in Milas, 84 kilometres away from Bodrum. It has spa, sauna and wellness centre, three private beaches. Guests can also land here in a helicopter! It covers an area of nearly 1 lakh square kilometre.