It was not a ‘lehenga’ but a red sari that Shilpa Shetty wore for her wedding with Raj Kundra on 22 November. Her wedding outfits (for the ‘sangeet’, the wedding and the reception), have been designed by Tarun Tahiliani.
Tahiliani says that designing for Shetty is akin to dressing “an accentuated gazelle (sic)…long limbs and a dancer’s grace with a sensuous long-limbed statuesque loveliness.” (I did not make that up. He really said that in an email). One can only wish that the “gazelle” (or bambi in my lingo) had put her foot down and demanded for something different and not the usual fitted-draped sari with an almost backless ‘choli’, a humungous neckpiece and trademark ‘kalgi’-shaped ‘baju-bandh’