Mumbai: Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda and model Lin Laishram dated each other for a brief period before exchanging wedding vows in 2023.
The couple tied the knot in a traditional Meitei wedding ceremony in Manipur.
In an interview with Mid-Day, Randeep shared about the unusual wedding ceremonies, and recalled how he was asked to pee in a bowl on D-day.
“Then we came to the wedding ceremonies. I had a helper with me, more like a tutor. So once the groom puts his thing on his head, you can’t tilt your head. You go to the ceremony and they give a bowl and an umbrella. They then put you in a holding area where everyone is supposed to come and look at you, and you are supposed to look very dignified. And once you are in the mandap, which has got all these midang players summer-salting, and all these pandits chanting mantras, you are not supposed to move; they wrap a blanket around you. So if I sit in rest mode, the helper would correct me and say ‘you have to look the best, you are god today.’ For two hours I had to sit with my back straight and head up. Then I asked what was the bowl for and he said in case you need to pee, you just open the umbrella and pee over there, you cannot move out of there because you are god,” Randeep recalled.
“And when she (Lin) came, she also had a tutor. She got so much scolding. She was smiling and you are not supposed to smile, so messengers would come and tell you ‘stop smiling’. But we all were so taken in. The Haryanvi culture and the Manipuri culture is so different even though both produce the best boxers and sportsmen. Our is so rough and crass and their’s is so systematic. She was wearing so much gold and I was like ‘chalo ek picture toh yahin bann gayi (now a film can be made)’. It was a civil war going there and as soon as the pheras finished, hundreds of AK-47 went off in the air,” the actor added.
Randeep further revealed that his marriage to Lin was a “big drama” as she wasn’t a Jaat.
However, his friend Brigadier Sanghwan, who was with the Assam Rifles, helped him marry Lin in Manipur.
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Earlier, Lin had shared about their love story with ANI.
“We actually met at Naseeruddin Shah’s theatre group called Motley, and he was my senior. That’s where I met him. We were friends, and it’s turning into a beautiful journey,” Lin revealed.
