Srk, Aamir, Abhishek, Farhan at Prerna Ghanshyam Sarda’s wedding to Abhinav Amitabh Jhunjhunwala

Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar attended Kolkata’s business tycoon Ghanshyam Sarda’s daughter Prerna’s marriage to Abhinav Jhunjhunwala, son of Amitabh Jhunjhunwala (Vice Chairman and Director of Anil Ambani group) thanks to the personal involvement of Anil & Tina Ambani of Reliance ADAG Group. Kolkata-based industrialist and jute baron Ghanshyam Sarda’s daughter Prerna married Abhinav on Saturday, January 28, 2012, in suburban Mumbai in a traditional function where the Anil Ambani Group Chairman and his senior management team was present in full strength.

In a striking example conforming to traditional Indian societal values, the wedlock between the two modern educated Gen-Next is an arranged marriage. Prominent personalities from India Inc., Bollywood celebrities, politicians, editors and socialites are expected to descend from Kolkata as well as Mumbai. The guest list also included politicians – Union Minister Praful Patel, Kripashanker Singh, Smriti Malhotra Irani; from Bollywood – Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Anupama Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, Prakash Jha, Madhur Bhandarkar, Gulshan Grover, Atul Agnihotri, Manmohan Shetty, Neeraj Roy, Adhuna Akhtar; from the financial and corporate world – Kokilaben Ambani and Nina Kothari (sister of Anil Ambani), Chanda Kochar, Nimesh Kampani, Kishore Biyani, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Utsav Parikh, Ajay Kayan, Girish Mehta, etc. All the leading businessman families of Kolkata including the Goenka, Bangars, Sarans and Sharmas are in Mumbai for the wedding. Prominent socialites from Mumbai also attended the ceremony.

Abhinav’s baraat had several luminaries while Prerna came on a palanquin. Ninety friends of Prerna from different parts of the world attended the wedding (Saturday, January 28) and various functions (held on Friday, January 27). The Sangeet ceremony held on January 27, also witnessed Bollywood stars descending on Mumbai’s famous south Mumbai hotel. The cuisine for the wedding was fully vegetarian yet with several variations such as Bengali, Punjabi, Chinese, Thai, south Indian and Continental with special Bengali desserts as the icing on the cake.

The ring ceremony held in June 2011 in Kolkata was a “grand” vegetarian affair at The Oberoi Grand with Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Rajasthani and Thai on the menu and a parade of stars on the guest list. The star guests included the Ambani couple, Union minister Praful Patel, stock market guru Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Utsav Parikh (the numero uno broker of Kolkata), Union Minister Praful Patel and Bollywood’s Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao.