“This is not about Indian weddings. It’s about your nightmares! ”
– Aveek Sen
“A marriage celebration always sets out to be the dreamed promise of a life in store, of a life in happiness, of a glorious future. Marriage must be a fiesta, a gamble and, at the same time, the demonstration of a social position... Mahesh Shantaram documenting middle class marriages in his country... engages with a delicious inventory with an amusing take—verging closer on catastrophe as the images build up... the fluorescent lighting screams green and pink, the artificial flower arrangements collapse, and the make-up cracks—showing the really desperate nature of this theatre of conventions.” — Christian Caujolle
