Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The third Bride on Band Baajaa Bride, Season 2 - Write Up


This week on Band Baajaa Bride with Sabyasachi, meet Aditi Charkavarthy, a modern day Bengali with not an inkling of the Bengali way of weddings! She approaches the Band Baajaa Bride team with a unique request- her parents want her to look every bit the traditional Bengali bride!

Sabyasachi grabs the opportunity to return to his roots and to fashion Aditi at her bong best. However, there's more to the challenge. With just 20 days to her wedding, Aditi wants to straighten out her crooked teeth, add volume to her scanty short hair and treat her skin to be at her glowing best!

The team ropes in the experts and throws in a bonus; the lover of all things Bengali, and muse to Sabyasachi, actor Vidya Balan! While Vidya has some great advise for a star struck Aditi, will our bride make the most of it? Will she love her makeover? Will her parents appreciate her traditional avatar?

Get the whole story, on friday, the 24th of Feb at 9.30pm only on NDTV Goodtimes!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

My Second Write Up for the shy bride, bride 2 on Band Baajaa Bride, season - 2

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and so Kratika Gupta our second bride wants to look the most beautiful she has ever looked till date for her man – Kapil Singh Chand.

Kratika, a software engineer by profession fell in love with the Punjabi mundaa. This wasn’t a love-at-first-sight though. This shy girl narrates her story written in her diary.
Kratika mentioned in her diary how she always looked upon at the models in glossy magazines, and wedding clothes in boutiques dreaming that maybe one day she will be lucky enough to own an exquisite designer lehenga and look like one of the models in the magazine.

Kratika, a girl who never went for a haircut in her life before, gets a marveling haircut by Aveen Contractor, which left her mom overwhelmed with happiness. Team Band Baajaa Bride with Sabhyasachi, gives kratika an all new stunning makeover with a perfect lehenga by the new age designer himself.

BBB transform this petite sweet simple and shy girl into a radiant, gorgeous, heart-throbbing bride by Dr Jamuna Pai, best known dermatologist in Bollywood Industry, coming in to rescue her from those unwanted facial hair and pigmentation she complained about.

Dreaming high about her D Day she applied in ‘BBB with Sabhyasachi’ and was amazed and thrilled when she was selected. What more added to her dreams-come-true was her favorite designer, Sabhyasachi designing her wedding lehenga.

A unique love story of a girl from Hyderabad and guy from Kashipur gets in a more romantic phase with ‘BBB with Sabhyasachi’.

The BBB team proved the best in transforming a girl next door to a princess of her man’s eyes when the groom first set his eyes on her after the journey of this make-over??
Did he find her as beautiful?? Watch this episode of Band Baajaa Bride with Sabyasachi, only on Ndtv GoodTimes.

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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and Kratika Gupta the second bride on Band Baajaa Bride with Sabyasachi, wants Kapil Singh Chand, her fiance, to see her like he never has before! Facial hair, an untouched mane, neglected feet and no lehengha are the obstacles to achieving this dream.
Team Band Baajaa takes over, under the guidance of mentor Sabyasachi Mukherjee and anchors Bharat and Ambika! The team throws in a few bonuses like ace cosmetic surgeon Dr Jamuna Pai and hairstylist to the stars- Avan Contractor!
Will this be enough for Kratika to look like a dream bride?
Watch the unique love story of a girl from Hyderabad and a guy from Kashipur culminate into the most romantic wedding with a little help from ‘Band Baajaa Bride with Sabyasachi’ on 17th feb, Friday 9.30pm.

My Write Up for the First Bride on Band Baajaa Bride


Band Baajaa Bride’s first bride Vidhu Kohli, a dentist by profession wants to look like the world’s most beautiful bride on her wedding. A Punjabi kudi from Ghaziabad, she had imagined a picture perfect marriage but her dreams were crushed just days after her engagement to Anand Bhalla from Canada. Vidhu met with an accident whilst learning to cook. The result- 60% percent facial burns! She was sure that this was the end of her engagement and the thought left her terribly depressed.

Life however had something else in store for her. Her fiancé, a complete stranger to her until then, decided he was going to stand by her through this painful phase and provided her all the support long distance would allow. This is when love blossomed between the two and Vidhu was convinced life was after all, wonderful!

Vidhu’s now wished to look even more beautiful for her beloved fiancĂ© and to not let the scars on her face haunt her on her big day. She also fantasized of an eclectic lengha with a good mix of modern and traditional elements. She approaches the one team she knows can help her- team Band Baajaa Bride!

Team BBB gives Vidhu the best surprise she can imagine! The show is now called Band Baajaa Bride with Sabyasachi, which meant she would get a bridal ensemble by none other than the best in the business- maverick designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee! The BBB team also takes her to the dermatologist Bollywood trusts- Dr Jamuna Pai. Dr Pai, treats Vidhu’s scars and enhances her face with an eyebrow lift. Next up is makeup and hair. Vidhu’s biggest fear was without the right makeup, under the harsh wedding lights, the scars would resurface. Team Band Baajaa Bride presents her with the next surprise- the award winning makeup and hair ace Asha Hariharan! The bonus- Asha is known to make brides look like princesses!

In a season’s first like no other; beauty, art, technology and the sheer efforts of anchors Ambika Anand, and Bharat Arora and mentor Sabyasachi Mukherjee, transform Vidhu Kohli into the bride she’s always hoped to be! Watch this episode of Band Baajaa Bride with Sabyasachi, only on Ndtv GoodTimes.