Leave Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha Alone!

 Are they getting married ? Are they  not? Are they getting married in April?  Or June? 

For God’s sake,  who  gives a  damn? Does anyone really care when this couple become Man and Wife? Are they  Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor?Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri? Or  Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai? Virat Kohli or Anushka Sharma?

Does anyone remember the last film that Ali Fazal  appeared in ? No? Then his marketing team is here to remind us that Ali and his  sweetheart are important to us.  We don’t know why  or how they are  important.Is it by dint  of being  film actors? Is  that all the  qualification required to be a celebrity in this  country?

Mr Fazal and  Ms  Chadha have made it clear that their wedding is their private  affair. In that case why don’t they curb their publicists’ over-enthusiasm rather than accuse the Indian media  of fabricating  wedding details?

They  have now provided us  with details of the  Ali-Richa  wedding’s  guest list.Apparently  Hollywood  stars  are invited. Or so we are  told in  carefully leaked information from the PR machinery.Sure ,  why not? Remember how recently  a rickshaw puller  from Uttar Pradesh  invited the Prime Minister? Why can’t Ali invite Judi Dench  or Gal Gadot? He can even invite  Kylie Jenner. That  way he’s sure to get Diljit Dosanjh to come.

I would  wager anything that Judi Dame Wench and  Gal Gadot are not coming for  the Ali-Richa wedding. Why should they? Just because  Ali Fazal has worked with them? By that  reckoning, Tom  Cruise  should have come to Sonam Kapoor’s wedding as her father  has worked with  Cruise.

 Why are we  taking so  much interest  who is coming  to Fazal’s wedding with his beloved? More importantly, why are we so fixated on international  celebrities?