This photo from Sunita Kapoor's Karva Chauth celebration is beautiful

For those who think that life imitates art and that all the harking back to traditional spectacle and ceremonies like Diwali and Karva Chauth across India are the result of all those KJo and Aditya Chopra movies, here's a thought: The over-the-top choreographed spectacles are very much part of a certain Punjabi culture, in which both men have grown up and what they depict on screen; it's what they were most likely surrounded by in their formative years.

This thought came to us when we chanced upon these perfectly synchronised, beautifully colour-coordinated photographs of Sunita Kapoor's recent Karva Chauth, where the likes of Rashmi Thackeray, Kahkashan Patel, Lali Dhawan, Bhavana Pandey and Shilpa Shetty observed the ceremony, which looked like it was straight out of a movie set. "No one can beat Sunita Kapoor at her hospitality and warmth!" said a guest.

"Beautiful Indian traditions ...Karva Chauth!!" said another. "Starving, thirsty and still in high spirits, that's what friends are for," said Kapoor herself. One more thing: while the KJo - Adi combination might have only replicated scenes such as these from their growing years, what they have undoubtedly done is export them to non-Punjabi homes across the country. And, of course, added all that gloss.