Meet Kalki Kashyap

“From the start of the ceremony right till the end,both of them seemed mesmerised by each other,” laughed Ishika Mohan Motwane,wife of director Vikramaditya Motwane,who was one of the few guests at actor Kalki Koechlin and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s wedding. The ceremony took place on Saturday,in Ooty,the hill town where the bride’s French parents have now been living for 30 years.

No fairytale affair,the preparations were kept elegant yet simple. “It was a DIY wedding — we set the stage,did the decorations and worked out all the arrangements ourselves. Kalki is not comfortable with too much attention,” said the newlywed groom. The ceremony began at 10.30am,in accordance with the mahurat. A small baarat party,comprising Kashyap’s family,including his daughter Aaliya,and a few close friends like the Motwanes,writer Piyush Mishra,UTV Spotboy’s ex-COO Vikas Bahl,cinematographer Rajeev Rai,sound designer Narendra Chandavarkar and his “friend of 19 years from the Mumbai streets,Sanjay Gandhi”,among others,sang and danced to dholki beats. The bride’s party mostly included Koechlin’s friends from her theatre group,like Neil Bhoopalam and Gulshan Devaiya.

The ceremony was followed by a lunch of traditional vegetarian South Indian fare. But what Kashyap was most looking forward to was the barbecue evening with the picturesque Ooty landscape for backdrop: “We’ve been relishing pure vegetarian food for two days.”