{"id":8735,"date":"2019-05-03T02:57:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=8735"},"modified":"2024-09-21T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T09:52:27","slug":"update-my-big-fat-gupta-wedding-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/update-my-big-fat-gupta-wedding-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: My big fat Gupta wedding \u2013 the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube clip rivalling a high-end Bollywood music video gives a first peek into the lavish five-day Gupta wedding staged in February at Abu Dhabi\u2019s Emirates Palace, one of the world\u2019s most luxurious hotels.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch the video.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8735-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/videoplayback-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/videoplayback-1.mp4\">https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/videoplayback-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AmaBhungane earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/guptas-drop-millions-on-double-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed details<\/a>\u00a0of the event, estimated to cost R100-million.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding was slated as a double feature, with Rajesh \u201cTony\u201d Gupta\u2019s daughter Shubhangi Singhala marrying Chetan Jain and Atul Gupta\u2019s son Srikant Singhala tying the knot with Akhya Bansal. The YouTube clip features only Shubangi and Chetan\u2019s nuptials.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi-based Isha Films produced the four-minute \u201cteaser\u201d video, titled: \u201cDestination Wedding in Abu Dhabi | Big Fat Indian wedding in Emirates Palace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative journalism takes time and money. Help us do more. <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/be-an-amab-supporter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be an amaB Supporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the nuptials, the company says on its YouTube page: \u201cIsha Films reaches the magnificent Abu Dhabi with Chetan &amp; Shubhangi&#8230; Come witness the grandeur with us as the beautiful couple takes vows for an everlasting bond with the union of two families, graced by some of the well known faces of the industry!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the video shows opulent decorations and flower arrangements, exquisite Indian couture and jewellery, pyrotechnics,\u00a0a multitude of live-music and dance acts, and the requisite Rolls Royce arrival.<\/p>\n<p>A beaming Tony Gupta features several times \u2013 without apparently a care despite being at the centre of state capture allegations in South Africa.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The video was removed from YouTube after this story was published. We subsequently inserted a link to a saved version.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube video reveals the extravagance of the self-exiled family\u2019s latest wedding, in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,146,147],"class_list":["post-8735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-guptas","tag-sun-city-wedding","tag-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30366,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions\/30366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}