The wedding season is on and definitely on small screen also. Recently Rani Padmini (Tejaswani) got married to Raja
Ratan Singh (Rohit Bakshi) in the show. It was said to be one of the costliest wedding on Indian television with lots of
money spend on the clothes and jewellers of the actors.
The royal wedding, a real grand affair was shot over 5 days at ND Studios, where the sets of the show have been
erected. The bride (Rani Padmini) and the groom (Rana Ratan Singh) are dressed in Neeta Lulla's creations; the
jewellery worn by Tejaswini is created by Nitin Desai along with PN Jewelers in real gold, embellished with kundan and
worth close to Rs. 2 crore nearly.
Debutante Tejaswini completely looks the part of a young princess in the gold outfit and wearing five gold kadas
(bangles) weighing close to 180 grams and three neckpieces weighing more than 400 gms.
When asked the Producer Nitin Chandrakant Desai on the big wedding sequence, he said "Indian history is gorgeous
architecturally, we studied the culture and researched on the subject and wanted to maintain the scale and richness of
a real Royal wedding."
"The wedding costume is around 12 to 13 lakhs. My dear friend Neeta has helped me a lot in this and I am grateful to
her for the same. These jewelleries are specially made in one of the shop in Pune, " he concludes.
This is what we call a paisa pheko tamasha dekho.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:10 IST