Wedding of North Indian Mulga and Marathi Mulgi!

Wedding of North Indian Mulga and Marathi Mulgi!

Last Sunday, I went to pune to attend wedding of VP and Gargi! And god what fun it was! I enjoyed the twists and turns things, which by the way started right when I left Mumbai!

When I went to take my Volvo ticket, I got one immediately and bus also came on time. For the first time I was able to leave within 5 min and was happy to save time! But my happiness was short lived, as bus became very hot and suffocating! Ac stopped working and after 45 minutes of traveling like this, travelers created hue and cry, leading to call for a new bus!!

Anyways, I reached there, went to VPs home. Now he is from Lucknow and generally north Indian weddings are full of people. However, pune being so far, only close family members were there. So for “Janeu”, when the pandit called for five male members, there were only 4 J aunty got a bit emotional saying “hamare yahaan shaadi me 500 logon ko koi nahi poochhata, yahaan 5 ki kami hai!” finally I was asked to join and rasm was completed duly!

Then came “Kuan Pujai” where ppl go to a well to worship it. So, after discussions, a “well” was to be made outside home. VP’s jija ji did the hard work, using “kitchen knife” and “kalchhi” J he he…it was so much fun to watch him doing that using kitchen knife J (I have the snaps, but cant upload right now, shall do it later). Finally ek kuaan bana, jise dhoondhana padta tha gaur se taaki vo dikh jaye….and vo kuaan itna bada tha ki spoon se paani bhara ja sakta tha J he he !!

But god had different plans, and in Mid Nov, it started raining! And so it was all water everywhere !! har jagah kuaan hi kuaan dikh raha tha J so, we could use that for kuaan pujai. During this time, the driver of the car which to be used by VP, was slipping in the car, with AC on. Result – Battery went down, and in the rain, dhakka dene ki jarrorat aa gayi. By that time everyone was already ready, except me J so I volunteered and tried hard..but cud not do it alone. I was joined by another frnd of VP who arrived just then. We were enjoying the whole episode, but in the end, car didn’t start. So immediately another car was arranged. An “Audi” was sent by sayaji hotel and so VP enjoyed the luxary of Audi in his marriage J

However, marriage was planned in open area, and rain resulted in all the samaan being shifted to a small hall and a corridor was used in the hotel J it was so cute and funny. Sayaji being a five star hotel, many foreigners were there and when they saw the corridor being used for Indian wedding, a lot of curious eyes started surrounding us J

We enjoyed meeting a lot of people from my old Infosys days. Meeting them was so fun. Met Ketan also, my project manager in Infosys. Food was good. We all made a group and did some masti with the big greetings card I had bought for VP and Gargi! I hope, both of them would like it!

Anyways….a fully fun filled day!

Note: Would be interesting to know Raj Thakarey’s view on bhaiya log wedding marathi mulgi!! I guess, he would ask for preference of marathi boy for local girls J he he ..just kidding!

Namak Ishaq Ka

Today, yours truly went to Rekha Bhardwaj Show. To the uninformed, she is a sufi singer, wife of Vishal Bhardwaj (Omkara, Kamine Fame) and singer of hits like Namak Ishaq ka and Sasural Genda Phool. This was her first live show!! It was at Bandra Fort and the ambiance was truly amazing. The atmosphere was electric and I got to view the Bandra Worli sea link live for the first time! Amazing view it was!

The show started with Bhanvari Devi, the famous Rajasthani fol singer, singing folk song. Music truly has no language. She sings in Rajasthani with ghoonghat. So u neither understand the lyrics, nor can see the face, but still end up enjoying it and tapping ur feet. She ended up with Nimbooda Nimbooda song!!

In came Rekha Bhardwaj!! And came celebrities...Rakesh Omprakah Mehra, Naseeruddin Shah and of course Vishal Bhardwaj!
Vishal was called on stage, and his one liner was ..he is getting jealeous, as he never got so many ppl to come to his show!! till then, the lights was off in audience section. It was switched on to show huge audience (more than 4000 I guess), and in came Vishal's quick add-on statement - u ppl r making me more jealeous :-)
On this laughing note, the show started! With lyrics by Gulzar, Music by Vishal Bhardwaj ...and her so apt voice for sufi songs....one could just shut his/her eyes, and could FEEL the relaxing effect of the songs!! one after another, pure sufi songs came, with strong music! Roshani was accompined with actual roshani from crackers..while on the great ambiance, she specifically sang "raat ki jogan".
One break came, during which the instrument players on the stage entertained us to the hilt. Each one of them got so much of appluase from audience as if A R Rehman has sung Jai Ho on stage!
And after the small break came hit songs from Rekha. She sang genda fool first, and audience was like tapping their feet...then came namak ishq ka...and it was mind blowing...surprisingly, this was enjoyed more by girls and ladies with whistles!! and then, to close it, on audience demand, came the sufi hit song, dama dam mast kalandar!!

I enjoyed it max! Made my evening and the day!! Would recommend u to listen her Ishaqa Ishaqa, if u like Vishal's music!

Ghar ka Khana

Well, every good thing comes to an end very soon, and so did my stay at home! but god, this time I enjoyed it sooooo much I cant put it in words! With both uncles and their complete family and both Mausi and their complete family, home was like always full on fun, children playing around in every room, lot of sound, things breaking, lot of stuff to eat, someone always needing something, someone always going to shop.....so happening time it was!

Aur in sab ke beech, ghar ka yummy-yummy khana....just take a sample of what all I ate during a brunch ....mind you, this was only one time and I not giving list of items I ate in full week!!

Rice
Poori
Jhinga Machhali (Prawn)
Parval Ki sabji
Alu Gobi ki Sabji
Gobi ke Pakode
Aloo ke pakode
Parval Ke pakode
Pyaj Ke pakode
Chhath ka prasad
Dahi
Kadi
Chatani
Achar

And...itna kuchh khane ke baad, when u r continuously burping, u get to listen....kuchh nahi khata hai ye!!! Mothers are always like that :-) thank god!! This statement filled with love is like final sweet after the dish!