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Hurley's Indian wedding with Mumbai-based businessman Arun Nayar
is not even a month old when, first, an anguished father's outcry
against being left out in the cold, followed by a suit slapped against
the couple for "making a mockery" of Hindu customs. |
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The celebrity couple has been
accused of violating a number of Hindu customs and beliefs. The
complaint says Hurley did not bother to remove her footwear before the
sacred fire at the ceremony and wore revealing clothes."This was a
marriage for commercial purposes, but at the cost of religious
feelings," Saraswat said. Charges have been levelled against the
couple under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, that seek to bring
them to book for deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the
religious feelings of the Hindu community and insulting its beliefs.
A fresh evidence has been produced in Jodhpur court in Rajasthan by Vinod
Nayar against his son Arun Nayar and Liz Hurley, thereby challenging
the methodology of their marriage. Complainant’s counsel, HM Saraswat
said "we produced photos, which showed Arun Nayar wearing shoes during
the marriage ceremony. It violated the Hindu rituals." The court
has fixed April 24, 2007 as the next date for recording the statements
of
the witnesses.
The British model-actress Elizabeth Hurley 41
and her new husband Indian businessman Arun Nayar, 42, were married on
Friday, March 9, 2007 at Umed Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur. In a lavish
wedding celebration Naiyar on a white horse accompanied by caparisoned
elephants and camels with 240 guests. Arun enjoyed the kind of
pageantry once reserved for marajas. Nearly 240 guests
joined the celebration at the hill-top Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
It was their second wedding in a week. The couple was first wed in a
private civil ceremony in a castle outside London. Hurley's
4-year-old son, Damian, accompanied the couple on their trip to India. |
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The 347-room Umaid Bhawan Palace in
Jodhpur was completed in 1943 and claims to be one of the largest
residences in the world. Guests spent Wednesday night, their first in
Jodhpur, playing a floodlit cricket match. A special cricket pitch has been made in the
hotel premises where a match between the Hurley team and Nayar team played on March 8.
On March 9, 2007, there was a wedding carvan invoving 12 horses and 60
camel carts and fireworks in the evening. The guests went to Mahengarh Fort, where they
enjoyed
a typical feel with folk singers and folk dances doing ghoomar, tehra
taali and other dances as part of the festivals. The newly wed
couple would be taken up in the fort in a specially made 'palki'. The
Mehrangarh fort was built by Rao Jodha in 1459. A fine blend of Mughal
and European architecture, Umaid Bhawan Palace is the last of the
great palaces of India. It is designed by famous Edwardian architect
Henry Lanchester, the lavish interiors and walls decorated with game
trophies are complimented by great murals of self-exiled Polish artist
Stefan Norbin. |
Umed Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur
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Hurley and Arun Nayar went on Thrusday, March 8 to Nagaur Fort, about
130 kilometers outside the city, for a musical ceremoner that included
qawwali, or devotional hymns performed by Sufi Muslims.
Nagour town has come alive amid various celebrations of the
marriage of Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar taking place at the 11th century
fort here. After the era of Allauddin Khilji, it is the second time
the fort is being renovated. People were surprised when they
came to know that the dilapidated Nagour fort would be venue for the
celebrations of the wedding as there are hardly any visitors
otherwise. Sparkling lights, a large number of foreigners and the
presence of celebrities like Bollywood actress Priety
Zinta added glamour to the party held in Nagour fort. For the
local people their arrival to this backward area would be very
beneficial for Nagour. The local businessmen made brisk business on
this occasion. Also the facelift of the fort would make the fort
an popular and attractive destination for tourists. |
Nagaur Fort
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But the security brawl with journalists
marks end of Elizabeth Hurley's Indian wedding.
A fistfight broke out between journalists and security guards as
Elizabeth Hurley and her new husband Arun Nayar arrived at a fort in
western India where they were holding their wedding reception.
Police and media persons got into brawls thrice in the three days of
the 'fairytale wedding'. The media persons, including female
reporters, were being groped, pushed and slapped at the Liz-Nayar
wedding. The problems started with the Umaid Bhawan Palace being
cordoned off by British security without prior information. At the
airport, travel agency personnel organising transport roughed up the
media for trying to take pictures of Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia.
On Thursday, while the celebs enjoyed a traditional sangeet ceremony
at Nagaur Fort, outside the media battled it out with locals with
overactive libidos and cops. A female journalist was slapped by
private security guards as she tried to run towards the Nayar's
Bentley, as it headed into Meherangarh Fort on Friday.
The Environmentalists says that Liz Hurley's
long-haul wedding has produced an enormous carbon footprint.
A special study, by an Oxford-based footprinting consultancy, suggests
the celebrations will release around 200,000kg of carbon into the
atmosphere. The consultancy, Best Foot Forward, reckons this is an
underestimate. Best Foot Forward says the biggest polluter is the
Learjet, which will emit more than 70,000kg on its 12,000-mile
round-trip. |
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