Sonakshi Sinha’s wedding charmed so many people for so many reasons. There are who get dewy-eyed at weddings as the true culmination of romance(I am not one of them). Others loved the unpretentious looks on the bride and groom, so very pre-Dharma weddings. What’s not to love about a classic red and gold Banarsi, that too on a classic Indian beauty like Sonakshi with her nayika eyes, her curvaceous body, her centre-parting and most of all, her self-contained womanly air, with nary a trace of coyness.

Sonakshi carried herself with lightness through the proceedings. There was none of the usual overwrought and fussy air of weddings with their designer outfits, whether simple or sumptuous, the elaborate air which signals that marriage has heightened significance, that it is almost an achievement. These celebrations seemed youthful, modern, full of fun, not decorum or sentimentality, best expressed in the many dance videos doing the rounds —dancing with Rekha in gold, dancing with Kajol in guffaws. The sheer presence of unconventional, or let’s just say it, diva types, including Tabu in rose gold gharara, felt like a feminist Farah Khan song.