For the first time in the history of Indian television

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This will be the first wedding on Indian television where the entire nation has been invited. Archana (Ankita Lokhande) who had been facing marital re****als all along has finally found a groom. Archana will now wed Manav (Sushant Singh Rajput) in the mother of all weddings on the small screen. The channel and the production house is leaving no stone unturned to make the affair grand and thus has invited the whole of India to bless the couple.


Archana’s mother Sulochana (Savita Prabhune) has been personally handing over the invitation cards to commuters of local trains and residents of various localities. The response was so huge that the residents of a chawl performed the traditional Otee (a good luck gift given to married women) ritual. A huge set has been erected at R.K. Studios, Chembur and the wedding will take place on 25 July.


Says a source, “This is a grand affair and we have invited the entire nation to come and bless the couple. I think it is a very smart move from the channel’s end and will certainly create the required hype. We have already started getting motivating feedback.”


According to the channel more than 5000 SMS have been received in response to the channel’s invitation to its viewers for attending the wedding within three days. Fans will be travelling from cities llike Pune, Nasik, Indore, Delhi, Kanpur, Amritsar, Lucknow and Rajkot to bless the newly weds. Several devotees from Ganesh temples which Sulochana frequently visited to offer prayers for finding a suitable match for Archana have also been invited.


Nitin Vaidya, COO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. and Business Head, Zee TV, said, “Archana’s wedding is one of the high-points of the show and we wanted our audiences to be a part of it. Hence creating an on-ground event of the wedding was the best way to directly connect with our viewers.”


The wedding will also see a huge participation of Zee TV artists and live performances by the participants of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs and Dance India Dance.


Apart from this, the show’s producer, Ekta Kapoor herself visited Pune’s Dagru Seth Halwai temple to seek blessings for Archana’s wedding.

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The countdown has begun for television's biggest wedding which will be organized at R.K.Studios, Chembur on the 25th of July, 2009.

Yes, we are talking of the grand and lavish wedding of the leads of Balaji Telefilms' Pavitra Rishta on Zee TV, Archana (Ankita Lokhande) and Manav (Sushant Singh Rajput).

According to our source, "Invitations for the marriage has been sent to people all across the nation. Savita Prabhune who plays the character of Sulochana in the show is keeping no stone unturned for her daughter's wedding. Last Saturday she boarded a local train from VT station to Dombivli and distributed cards to all the ladies, inviting them for the wedding of her eldest daughter Archana".




"Savita Prabhune also visited the BBD Chawl in Worli last Sunday and distributed cards amongst the families. She went door to door inviting the families to be a part of the wedding. The people were so touched by this gesture of hers that on the spot they conducted a ' Otee Ceremony' wishing good luck to the bride's mother", adds our source.

It is heard that more than 500 commoners from all across the nation will be allowed to witness the wedding inside the grand sets organized at R.K. Studios.

"In addition to the humongous crowd that is expected, celebrities from Zee TV's most popular shows like Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo, Choti Bahu, Aapki Antara etc will be seen gracing the wedding and blessing the couple", adds our source.

The wedding will also have some well-planned song and dance events. "Mayuresh Wadkar and Vrushali Chavan, contestants of Zee's Dance India Dance will be seen performing a spectacular dance act just before the wedding. The talented kids from Zee's SaReGaMaPa L'il Champs will be seen rendering a song performance too", states our khabroo.

The shoot of the wedding will take place on 25th July, and the extravaganza will be aired on 27th and 28th July.