Pheras at sunrise, a rooftop portrait session, and the kind of family that makes filming almost effortless. Paradise Banquet Hall gave us four distinct spaces across a single day, and I treated each one as its own short scene with its own light and its own mood.
A Hindu wedding has a natural rhythm built into it, and over the years I have learned to let the film follow that rhythm rather than impose one of my own.
Four acts
The mandap at sunrise was the first act, and the hardest light of the day to get right. From there the day opened up: a rooftop portrait session while the guests were eating, then the blessings, then the send-off. Four acts, one story. When I sat down to edit, the structure was already there in the footage, because the day had handed it to me.