{"id":3636,"date":"2016-03-10T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T07:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2016-03-10T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T07:15:35","slug":"deepveer-shaadi-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Shaadi Ke Pehle PR: The Making of #DeepVeer Ki Shaadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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emember the time when Bollywood weddings used to be a celebration of two famous people celebrating their love for each other and not a massive PR-spectacle that defined their \u201cbrand\u201d? Yeah, me neither.<\/span>\n\nIn an age where you take to Instagram to tell the person you love that they are your sunshine, two public figures officially confirming rumours of their relationship status and taking the plunge isn\u2019t merely a wedding. Instead, it\u2019s a full-blown human experiment. An event that celebrity-obsessed Indians secretly look forward to and publicly detest simultaneously. <\/span>\n\nIn the coming week, Deepika Padukone, one of our highest-paid actresses will marry Ranveer Singh, an A-list hero who continues to smash stereotypes of <\/span>Bollywood\u2019s masculinity<\/span><\/a>. Their union will also unleash a totally expected yet completely shocking virus called \u201c<\/span>DeepVeer<\/span><\/a>\u201d on a population of over one billion. This highly contagious airborne virus will be spread through Twitter hashtags, Instagram stories, countless headlines exclaiming \u201cexclusive pics!\u201d, and an incurable curiosity to refresh every tab possible in the hope of being the first one to see this Ram-Leela unfold in real time. <\/span>\n\nAffecting nearly everyone with an internet connection, this virus will successfully turn us into zombies headlining a post-reality Dharma film called <\/span>Voyeur of the Year<\/span><\/i>. We won\u2019t even fight the symptoms, even though it\u2019ll elicit a feeling of intense <\/span>d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/span><\/a>, as if we\u2019d just survived it a few months ago. (Remember Virushka?) But why should we? After all, we\u2019ve been gifted the all-access pass to these weddings. You see, these newly-weds and their wedding receptions don\u2019t just magically happen to take over our collective timelines and our mental bandwidths, but are carefully designed to.<\/span>\n\n

Affecting nearly everyone with an internet connection, this virus will successfully turn us into zombies headlining a post-reality Dharma film called Voyeur of the Year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nIf the <\/span>Anushka Sharma-Virat Kohli <\/span><\/a>week-long wedding mela had confirmed something, it\u2019s that the idea of celebrity weddings being a private affair is an illusion \u2013 irrespective of whether it is at a plush Parel five-star or Lake Como. In fact, it\u2019s more of a challenge, daring the public to prove otherwise. The marketing of a <\/span>celebrity wedding<\/span><\/a> starts off with the decision of the venue itself \u2013 the farther it is from our collective reach, the more attention it commands. Like being asked to earn our status as a certified voyeur by unearthing that one family Instagram account sharing pictures of the happy couple instead of being granted unfettered virtual footage by the paparazzi. And we lap it up unquestionably, freely discussing, dissecting, and approving the venue, the weather, the emotional investment, and even the size of the smiles on the faces of the newly-weds. Like we\u2019re meant to. Like they want us to.<\/span>\n\nA celebrity wedding in this day and age is much an entertainment commodity as a <\/span>Dhoom <\/span><\/i>franchise \u2013 it\u2019s even promoted with the same rigour. Unlike the super-secrecy of Virushka, DeepVeer co-ordinated their wedding announcement on Instagram, perfectly timing it just hours before Padukone\u2019s appearance on <\/span>Koffee With Karan<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a chat show that had Singh as a guest the following week. You\u2019d be naive to chalk it up to a mere coincidence, considering <\/span>KWK\u2019s<\/span><\/i> opening episode was designed to spark interest in their wedding, with insights into their dating life (they\u2019ve been dating for six years, and not five), sex life, and their friend circles. <\/span>\n\nIf DeepVeer had Koffee With Karan, Virushka had Manyavar. The couple used the clothing brand to tease the idea of the actress finally marrying India\u2019s most eligible cricketer. And Sonam Kapoor timed her shaadi barely a month before <\/span>Veere Di Wedding<\/span><\/i> <\/a>hit the theatres, blaring the soundtrack at her reception, knowing full well that it will be captured on countless Instagram stories that will be relayed to our phones. <\/span>\n\nThe pinnacle of this promotion blitz \u00a0\u2013 and the success of it \u2013 hinges on the level of our emotional investment: How moved we are to see that carefully designed aesthetic of the couple picture just after the wedding. How much we approve and dissect the amount of sindoor on the head or the change of surname. And how we betray the voyeurs in us by appearing to be tired of the information overdrive. Marriage is Bollywood, just like its movies, only understands the language of co-dependence. They want to involve us as badly as we want to get involved. And so we engage, whine, and continue engaging.<\/span>\n\nBack in the day, actors would get married in secret, when no one was watching. But now, Deepika and Ranveer \u2013 just like Anushka-Virat and Sonam-Anand \u2013 will get married under the arclights, only when they\u2019re convinced that the whole <\/span>country is watching<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A celebrity wedding is as much an entertainment commodity as a big-banner film. 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