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QUIRKY BRIDE, BRIDES The Bollywood brides that rock and roll INTERRUPTED is plays the runaway bride in

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KARISHMA UPADHYAY FILM WRITER BRIDES From runaway brides to the quintessential ‘sharmilee bahu’, there are five prototypes of wedding belles that Bollywood loves.

undar. susheel. gharelu. About two decades ago Rajshree flms inseminated the idea of who the adarsh Bharatiya bahu is. Suman (Maine Pyaar Kiya) starts her Bride on the Run paper reporter and they fall in love. mornings with puja, fries kachoris and is an Antakshari Whether she is riding a rickety yel- Instead of saying ‘I Do’ to her long- champ. Over a space of multiple songs, Nisha falls in low scooter or jumping into a truck term gora boyfriend, Jasmine Singh love with the mandolin-playing Prem in Hum Aapke laden with fruits, some brides are (Katrina Kaif) says ‘No’ before run- Hain Kaun (HAHK) but she agrees to marry her broth- excellent at ditching their partners. ning out of the church in Namastey er-in-law Rajesh after the death of her sister Pooja be- In Express, Rahul (Shah . Katrina knows a thing or cause babuji said so. If HAHK had two weddings, Sooraj Rukh Khan) gets entangled with two about interrupted weddings on Barjatya upped the ante in Hum Saath Saath Hai, with Meenamma (), screen. She’s played characters that three blushing brides who did little else but doll up, a dreaded don’s daughter on the have run away from their weddings dance and cook. run from an arranged marriage to in Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahaani, In the years since, we’ve had the ruthless Sheetal Tangaballi (Nikitin Dheer). Before , Mere Brother Ki Dul- S() who only marries Raju (Anil ) to ‘teach mousy-Rahul transforms into mes- han, Partner, Humko Deewana Kar him a lesson’ in Laadla; Suhani (), in siah-Rahul, it’s the serial runaway Gaye and Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya. Saathiya, is a no-fuss bride who is happy with a court bride who calls the shots, including wedding; the guitar-strumming rock chick Dimple Dixit planning their getaway from goons. Left At The Altar (Katrina Kaif) who falls in love with her fance’s brother Some brides like Pooja (Pooja Being dumped days or, in some in Mere Brother Ki Dulhan; and, Shashi (Anushka Shar- BRIDAL BLUES Bhatt) in Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin cases, minutes before your wedding ma), the ghost bride of Phillauri. As the image of the run away from home to marry the is possibly every bride or groom’s has changed, brides in our flms have reconnects with love of their life. For Pooja, though, worst nightmare. But as Rani Mehra bharatiya naari her self after transformed beyond just being mannequins for interest- being dumped at fate intervenes in the form of Raghu (Kangana Ranaut) of discov- ing bridal wear. the altar in (), a struggling news- ers in Queen, there is a life beyond.

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TWO STATES abd work the north- south divide in this film

COY ONE Aishwarya Rai plays a shy bride in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

reading a magazine upside down in a train, Nandini realises that she loves Vanraj after all.

Small-Town Brides This fairly recent category of flmi brides solely belongs to Bhumi Pad- HEAVY DUTY Dum Laga Ke nekar, for now. In Sharat Katariya’s Haisha takes a fresh look at Dum Laga Ke Haisha, she plays overweight brides When we frst meet her, ‘mummy- Le Jayenge’s () contin- Indecisive Bride , a small town girl who as- daddy ki kasam’, Rani is the perfect ues to be Bollywood’s most iconic In , Taani pires to be a teacher. She is married bride. But when a day before the dulhania. Like the Rajshree brides, () marries Surinder of to Prem (Ayushmann Khurana) a wedding, her prince charming Simran agrees to marry whoever Sahni (), a stranger, 10th fail wimp, who gets roughed up dumps her, Rani takes of on their THE her bauji (Amrish Puri) has picked on the urging of her dying father. by his father on a regular basis. She honeymoon alone. In Paris, she for her but she asks for one month She doesn’t love her bespectacled loves him but he doesn’t because connects with a new self. BOLLYWOOD in Europe to ‘jee le apni zindagi’. husband; that is until she meets Raj she is fat. Sandhya is unapologetic We’ve also had the feisty Kusum Even when she falls madly in love (Surinder after an extreme make- THE SMALL- about her weight; bold enough to aka Datto (Kangana) who refused to BRIDE HAS with Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), over) in a dance competition and he buy herself sexy nighties and watch be Manu’s consolation prize in Tanu Simran is happy to wait till he wins teaches her to love again. TOWN BRIDE an ‘angrezi phillum’ to seduce her Weds Manu Returns and (Vani BEEN over bauji. Like Taani, Hum Dil De Chuke husband and even flefor divorce. Kapoor) who isn’t a damsel in dis- Decades later, hatta katta Pun- Sanam’s Nandini Durbar is heart IS GETTING Similarly, in her frst release of tress when Raghu (Sushant Singh REIMAGINED BY jabi munda (Arjun Kapoor) broken when she is forced to marry 2017 Toilet –Ek Prem Katha, Bhumi Rajput) runs away from the mandap and pretty Tam-Brahm Ananya boring Vanraj () instead A MAKEOVER plays a new feisty bride, who leaves in Shuddh Desi Romance. FILMMAKERS (Alia Bhatt), like Raj and Simran, of ‘hawa ka jhonka’ Sameer (Salman her husband’s home when she decide that they will only marry Khan). The Mr. Nice Guy she’s IN FILMS THIS realises that her new home doesn’t Conventionally TODAY with the approval of their parents. married to even takes Nandini to have a toilet and she’ll have to walk Unconventional So, he teaches her brother maths Italy to reunite her with Sameer. YEAR kilometres to relieve herself in dis- It’s been over two decades since we and she, like an adarsh bride-to-be, Somewhere between eating chillies tant felds every day. But all’s well frst met her but Dilwale Dulhania steps into the kitchen. (because she missed Sameer) and that ends well.

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