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F<\/span>our months after <\/p>Anushka Sharma<\/a> and Virat Kohli <\/a>brought #PinterestGoals to real life with their intimate wedding in Italy, Sonam Kapoor is all set to wed long-time boyfriend Anand Ahuja tomorrow. And with solid rumours of Deepika Padukone<\/a> and Ranveer Singh<\/a> tying the knot later in December, it\u2019s time to declare 2018 the Year of the Bollywood Celeb Wedding.\n\nThis particular shaadi season is characterised by its ability to invoke FOMO and voyeuristic tendencies among the wokest of individuals \u2013 the same people who on an ordinary day would author a Twitter thread bemoaning the lurid invasiveness that the country\u2019s tabloids thrive upon. A time that necessitates we remain glued to our Instagram<\/a> feeds, hoping for an update on Anil Kapoor\u2019s much-anticipated dance on \u201cMy Name is Lakhan\u201d or to feel tears well up in our eyes as we heart a picture of Anshula Kapoor posing with half-sisters Janhvi and Khushi. It\u2019s all about loving your fully filmy family<\/a>, indeed.\n\nIn these emotionally charged moments, we neglect the contributions of one member who\u2019s single-handedly responsible for spreading the virus known as Bollywood Wedding Hysteria. Sonam Kapoor\u2019s wedding, for instance, is not just a happy occasion for the bride, groom, their parents, and Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla. It also a sacred occasion for every Bollywood <\/a>wedding\u2019s chief non-guest: the paparazzi.\n

Social media has heralded a whole new breed of paparazzis in every wedding guest. <\/blockquote>\nFor the great Indian pap, a Bollywood wedding is also a trying time, solely because it forces them to give up doing groundbreaking work on two of the most pertinent issues of today: airport looks and documenting Taimur\u2019s<\/a> afternoons. Luckily, for them, Kapoor\u2019s festivities are to last for only three days, a guarantee that they won\u2019t suffer from severe withdrawal. The month-long suspense of the Virushka union had already taken a toll on many.\n\nIn their new responsibility as Annoyingly Invasive Bollywood Wedding Chronicler, the paparazzi have two weapons: their camera\u2019s ability to focus better than the iPhone 8\u2019s portrait mode and their stamina that will aid them in standing outside the gate of the venue for countless hours. And their superpower? To get the most unflattering angle of every celebrity wedding guest and their outfit before they make their way inside. Take that iPhone 8!<\/a>\n\nIt\u2019s also from this very position \u2013 a few metres behind the gate, jostling for an inch of space with their fellow chroniclers \u2013 that they set about their investigative reporting. Thirty minutes in, they get so invested in the wedding that they push their neighbouring paps with a ferocity even stronger than the inhabitants of a crowded Virar local<\/a>, all for a blur shot of Jacqueline Fernandez\u2019s back. Or try to focus their lens inside the house, hoping to catch a yet another blurry shot \u2013 this time of Anil Kapoor mouthing \u201cJhaakas\u201d the umpteenth time.\n\nUnfortunately, the contributions of our Indian paps now stand a risk of taking a backseat. Social media has heralded a whole new breed of paparazzis in every wedding guest. But ask yourself this: Wouldn\u2019t Sonam Kapoor\u2019s wedding be incomplete if you didn\u2019t get to see Janhvi Kapoor<\/a> getting out of the car in her Manish Malhotra ensemble? Or if you weren\u2019t updated on what time she left the mehendi with her sisters?\n\nYou have to admit, there\u2019s a certain charm in catching people off-guard while they try to walk in heavy lehengas that can\u2019t be matched by any Instagram selfie. That\u2019s a high only a paparazzi can give you, which is why they\u2019re the real MVPs of any Bollywood wedding.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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