marriages made on tv

This weekend I attended a wedding. Apparently it was one of the 10,000 weddings taking place in Delhi at the same time. Just think of the number of families being added to the tally. Very soon Delhi will look like shanghai- a sea of heads. We already see a sea of traffic everywhere. Anyway, the funniest part of the marriage I went to was that from the moment i stepped into the pandal i felt i had walked into one of Ekta kapoor's moronic serials. Elaborate garish decoration, overdressed- seriously overdressed men and women and all kinds of wierd rituals which we have never seen before. When the bride entered, a posse of relatives carried a flowery screen over her head and walked a hundred yards in very filmy style. Then the couple exchanged garlands on a bridge while a huge blower blew rose petals and shiny goo on them. It was just plain ridiculous. The good thing was that most of the guests were busy gorging food in the hundreds of stalls put up for the occasion and it was only the immediate family which was putting on this show for the video camera. I know for sure that the bride will wear those shiny plastic bangles all through the year (bcos the women in the serials do so) and keep fast on karva chauth and so on. Seriously, Ekta kapoor has brainwashed an entire generation of women in the country. They really dont know fact from fiction anymore.