There is a lot of buzz surrounding the wedding rumours of actors Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal. Reports are rife that the Bollywood couple will be tying the knot in April this year. According to the new development, the duo has applied for a marriage registration at Bandra Family Court.

According to a report in a news portal, Richa and Ali have submitted their application on February 15, 2020. So, as per the marriage registration rules, the wedding can take place any day post March 15. Considering Ali and Richa have shoots lined up, they hope to wrap up their commitments by March 31, and dedicate April to their wedding functions.

Elaborating further on the same, the report added that the preparations are on in full swing. Their wedding will take place mid-April, followed by the court wedding in Mumbai.

The actors' official spokesperson also told the news portal that the date for the registration has been taken. As per process, a three-month window is valid [for the wedding to take place] from the date that has been allotted. The couple is working towards an official registration in the last week of April, post which the celebrations will follow. They also added that it's a happy occasion, and all the parties involved are elated.

Earlier, in a candid chat with ETimes, Richa opened up about her relationship with Ali. Speaking about appreciating each other’s work on the professional front, she said, “If he watches my films, he gives me his feedback. He often criticises me which is fine because good friends are supposed to criticise. If somebody wants you to grow and learn, they will be critical of you.”
Elaborating more about him, she added, “He is my best friend and an amazing boyfriend. He is very supportive of my career. We discuss all the things except for the clichéd things that actors talk about like how to do networking and all. I am a big fan of him. He has excelled in his career. He is also doing his Hollywood film now. I am very proud of him.”

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Every relationship goes through its share of ups and downs. Currently, TV’s Nimki Mukhiya (Bhumika Gurung) has hit a low point in her relationship with choreographer-actor Amit Singh Gossain, better known as Keith.

In an interview to BT last year (November 22), the actress had said that she’s had a roka ceremony with Keith. However, the two, we hear, have now split. A lot of eyebrows were raised when Keith unfollowed Bhumika on social media and didn’t even attend her birthday party in January in Goa. In fact, he has deleted all pictures and videos featuring Bhumika from his social media accounts. The actress has also now unfollowed him on social media.


When we contacted Bhumika, she said, “I would not like to comment on this. I hope everyone understands the sensitivity of the situation and gives me the privacy that I need.”

On his part, Keith admitted that there were issues, but denied that the relationship was over. He said, “Bhumika and I are still communicating with each other, I am just asking for some time for our relationship. Fights are a part of every relationship, and we have to look for a middle ground. People have been constantly speculating about us. Earlier, they got me married to Bhumika, now they are saying that we have broken up. I request everyone to stop speculating and allow us to concentrate on our careers.”


Bhumika Gurung


... with Keith during their roka

One evening in 1975, a couple exited Regal Cinema looking highly embarrassed by their teen daughter’s loud, intrusive sobs. The culprit was Oscarwinning Hollywood film ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’, which had such a profound effect on young Meher Tatna that she wept through most of it and then some. These days, though, as the Los Angelesbased president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)—a non-profit organisation of journalists that oversees The Golden Globe Awards—Tatna’s tear ducts are activated by things like lastminute venue changes. “It’s like throwing a hundred weddings,” says Tatna about the frenetic, often “political”, job of inviting 1200 guests to the ceremony that is the champagnesoacked, tipsy cousin of the Oscars.

Having wrapped up the 76th edition of the Globes in January, Tatna is in the city on her annual visit to her South Mumbai home. Earlier this week, after her return flight was cancelled due to airspace closures following the aerial encounter between the Indian Air Force and Pakistani fighter jets over the LOC, Tatna found, on her hands, time—a rare luxury in her breathless life as film reviewer for Singapore’s The New Paper andHFPA’s president. “I don’t sleep much,” says Tatna, who has “lost” her personal life to the dual roles. “I hope my friends come back.”


Most of her friendships from Mumbai’s J B Petit High School for Girls, are intact. Growing up near Metro Cinema, Tatna not only devoured several matinee shows including Marlon Brando’s ‘Julius Caeser’ all by herself but also cut classes—as an economics student at St Xavier’s College—to catch movies whose names escape her now. “I wanted to be an actress,” says Tatna, who later joined LA’s Brandeis University and did her best to hand out resumes but found work only sporadically. “Those days you didn’t see many people on screen who looked like me,” says Tatna who waited tables to get by. “I was the worst waitress in the world,” confesses Tatna, who hadn’t yet learnt the art of sweet-talking customers into giving her a better tip. That’s when she decided to write about Hollywood as a way of staying in the business.

From an entertainment reporter who would cover The Golden Globes by watching it on live TV in the press room to consuming its flesh-andblood form seated at The Beverly Hilton ballroom as HFPA’s chief, Tatna’s life has changed enough for her to appreciate the art of sweet-talking.

Last year, she made the headlines when she walked the Globes’ red carpet clad in red when the entire fraternity wore black in solidarity with #TimesUp, the Hollywood women’s initiative to fight sexual harassment. Tatna—who later clarified that she wore red because in Indian culture, “when you have a celebration, you don’t wear black”—has seen Hollywood growing vigilant and hiring more women post #TimesUp. She hopes #MeToo has a similar effect here. “This has been such a maledominated culture since times immemorial. It doesn’t believe women when they speak up,” says Tatna. “It’s important that those who abuse their power are shown up for it.”

Beyond overseeing the fun and frivolous awards though, the HFPA has a little-known charitable side. It provides grants to charities and its beneficiaries have included The Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation. Among the causes it supports is film preservation and restoration—something that Tatna knows is tripping over the same roadblocks here as elsewhere. “The establishment isn’t interested in preservation,” says Tatna, who wishes the film community would chip in.

No wonder the news of Mumbai’s sparkling new national film museum lights up Tatna. “Where is it?” she asks. Suddenly, it seems apt that Tatna—who has been the voice of a few characters on the Simpsons—-recently gave the voiceover for a videogame character called Dr Amari. Dr Amari is a medical professional who works in a place called Memory Den and helps people relive their past.


LADY IN RED: Meher Tatna is the president of Hollywood Foreign Press Association which oversees Golden Globes