So it’s official. Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor have decided on a date for their hotly anticipated wedding, so what if they have decided to let Saif’s mother Sharmila Tagore have the honour of announcing it to the world. And though Saif’s mother would be the one making the wedding date public, Kareena trusts absolutely nobody when it comes to the nitty-gritties of the affair, none other than her mother and elder sis Lolo, that is. The buzz is that Karisma Kapoor has taken over the onus of putting together her little sister’s wedding trousseau.
And the upheavals in her personal life will not deter her from planning a dream wedding for Bebo. “The family will start meeting designers soon. Obviously, they will ensure that they have the best of the best for their superstar daughter,” says a source close to the family.
“The sisters have been very good friends with designer Manish Malhotra and have had implicit faith in him and his designs in the past. Apart from a few more high-profile designers, Manish will be designing costumes for both Kareena and Karisma,” adds our source.
The wedding date, October 16, is incidentally, around the release of Bebo’s upcoming big film, Madhur Bhandarkar’s magnum opus Heroine. And this is not the first such case. Releasing films around the time of an actor’s wedding seems to have become a trend.
“The idea is to encash on the popularity and the hype. Works for the actors and the film as well,” says our source. In the past Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan and Genelia and Ritesh Deshmukh have followed the pattern.