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Amid pomp and show, Vanisha Mittal, daughter of Non-Resident Indian
Steel tycoon LN Mittal, tied the nuptial knot with Amit Bhatia,
a London-based financier, in the beautiful setting of Vaux les Vicomte,
a 17th century Chateau, an hour's drive from Paris.
The six-day long wedding extravaganza, costing millions of pounds,
concluded on Wednesday afternoon at the Grand Intercontinental in
Paris attended by over 1000 guests including leading Indian industrialists
and Bollywood stars.
The VIP guests included the Hinduja brothers Srichand, Gopichand
and Ashok, the two sons of NRI industrialist Lord Swaraj Paul, Ambar
and Aakash, Reliance chief Anil Ambani and his wife Tina, Vijay
Mallya, Anand and Anuradha Mahindra, Parmeshwar Godrej, Union Civil
Aviation Minister Praful Patel, Sunil Mittal, Hotelier Lalit Suri,
property developer KP Singh, Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi, renowned
painter MF Hussain, Congress leader Murli Deora and London socialite
Ramola Bachchan.
Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar performed at the
wedding ceremony on Tuesday night while Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali
Khan, Juhi Chawla, Rani Mukherjee took the centre stage earlier.
The sangeet at Catherine de Medici's Jardin des Tuilleries in Paris
had performances by Mittal's son, Aditya, and daughter in law, Megha,
enacting the tale of how 23-year-old Vanisha fell in love with 25-year-old
Delhi-born Amit Bhatia.
Vanisha, a postgraduate from the School of Oriental and African
Studies in London, who recently took up a post at her father's LNM
Group, is believed to have met Bhatia, a Cornell graduate, while
working at Credit Suisse at Canary Wharf in Paris.
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