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Bharat Takur to wed Bhumika

A WEDDING has been announced between actress Bhumika Chawla and yoga guru Bharat Thakur. It will be solemnised on October 25 according to Punjabi and Bihari rituals. The bride's wedding ensemble is simple, but elegant.

It will include a ghagra for the Punjabi ceremony and a Banarasi red silk sari for the Bihari. An 80-year-old jeweller from Bharat's hometown in Bihar, is designing the maang tika, necklace and bangles for her.

Her trousseau taken care of, Bhumika's mind is on husband-to-be Bharat's preparations for the big day. He is growing a beard for the occasion to impress Bhumika's father, a retired army colonel who wears a pagdi! "He acts at the last minute," she complained about the cool and unruffled yogacharya she first met "smoking" at a party thrown by Salman Khan.

It was a moment they remember and cherish. "I was telling a friend that I need to start yoga. And there was Bharat at the same party! I never imagined this would be a permanent bond then, but I'm happy it's progressed that way," reveals a shy Bhumika. Bharat, of course, had known of her for long.

He admits shyly that he had selected Bhumika as his wife years ago after seeing her in the Tamil movie Rojakuttam. "I used to ride a red Vespa scooter then and when I saw Bhumika on screen and told my friends that if ever I settled down, it would be only with this heroine, they laughed," he says.

Bhumika has succeeded in getting him accustomed to Bollywood. And so comfortable is the yoga master with the industry, that he intends to turn producer after their marriage. "I will cast her as the heroine in all my movies," says the wannabe producer who plans to give up smoking for the wife-to-be.