Vishal Punjabi, a.k.a. the Wedding Filmer, shared some anecdotes about Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani's wedding film.
Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra have a fabled love story. The two first crossed paths in 2018 and had reportedly fallen in love on the sets of their film, Shershaah. The eventual success of the 2021 film led people to ship them as well. After courting for a few years, the couple tied the knot in a dreamy wedding ceremony in February 2023.
Recently, the Wedding Filmer, a.k.a. Vishal Punjabi, shared an anecdote about Sid-Kiara's wedding ceremony. While he was speaking on DJ Simz's YouTube channel, Vishal revealed that Kiara wanted to walk down the aisle on Shershaah's song, Raanjha. However, the lyrics of the song depicted death and destruction. Sharing that Kiara wanted to use that song as people started loving the couple for it, Vishal added:
"At Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani’s wedding, they wanted a song called ‘Ranjha’. The song is about an army officer dying and not coming back, and her yearing for him to come back. It’s a song about death and destruction. She wanted to walk out on that song, and validly so, because it’s the song that people loved the two of them for."
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But the lyrics of the song did not make any sense to them. Hence, Vishal and his team decided to change the lyrics of the song to a more event-appropriate one, and they changed the lyrics to positive and happier ones. Revealing that the fans of Bollywood culture took the wedding film as the happy ending of the couple in Shershaah, Vishal said:
"What didn’t make sense was the lyrics of the song. So what my team and I did was, we changed the lyrics of the song. We made them positive and happy, and made it about, ‘I’m coming to you’. So, fans of Bollywood culture globally, they took the wedding film as the real ending to the movie. Finally, they get their happy ending, they didn’t get it in the movie."
In the same conversation, Vishal mentioned that the happier version of Ranjha used for Sidharth and Kiara's wedding film became the highest-played wedding song on Spotify in 2023. Moreover, he stated that if it had been in any other country, it would have been tough to remix a song of this magnitude. But because Karan Johar, who owns the rights to it, was present at Sidharth and Kiara's wedding, it wasn't an issue. He said:
"If somebody does this in the UK, they’d get sued."
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Vishal further recalled that Sidharth and Kiara wanted a trailer for their wedding film immediately. Hence, he had his team all ready for this feat. They had a full editing set-up and a colourist at the hotel so that they could deliver their work on time. Sidharth and Kiara's wedding film became one of the most loved videos on social media. From the bridal entry to their magical varmala, everything swooned in the hearts of millions of people.
Check the video here.
What do you think of the revelations made by the Wedding Filmer about Sidharth and Kiara's wedding?
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