13 February,2011 09:24 AM IST | | Sudeshna Chowdhury
Couple customises filmy posters featuring themselves for their wedding in a bid celebrate their love for Hindi films and music
Here's an indication of Bollywood going global. A couple decided to make Bollywood the theme in their cross-cultural wedding. Thirty-somethings Saikirthi Daswani from Hong Kong and Mathias Fridholm from Sweden decorated the venue of their February 6 Goa wedding with Bollywood posters made in Mumbai.
"We decided to include some of our friends and relatives in the posters. Everyone loved them. Many said it was something they'd never forget," says Daswani. The biggest poster, she says, was "three posters incorporated in one" and based on the Akshay Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer Namaste London. The 16 feet long and seven feet tall poster was customised.
"We incorporated three elements in this one big poster titled, Namaste Goa. There was Namaste Sweden, since the groom is from there, and Namaste Hong Kong, since the bride is from Hong Kong," says Hinesh Jethwani, founder of Indian Hippy, a foundation for Bollywood film poster and billboard artists, who customised the posters for the wedding decor.
"The groom's parents have taken the poster back home to frame and hang up at their home there," says Daswani. Not only were the posters a hit at the wedding, the guests who arrived from Finland, Canada, Poland, Belgium, and France danced to Bollywood numbers too.
"We had Chinese guests perfecting jhatkas on Bollywood tracks," laughs Daswani. "My husband, Mathias has always been interested in movies, and around the time we met, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was released. We watched it in a theatre in Hong Kong, and Mathias has been a Bollywood fan ever since. He loves the music and colourful dancing," she says.
The groom also asked the wedding coordinator to arrange for a Shah Rukh Khan look-alike to perform at the sangeet. The artist arrived and danced to Bollywood numbers from Shah Rukh's movies, including Om Shanti Om.
