Ahana fulfils mom's wish of Big Fat Punjabi Wedding

Dream Girl Hema Malini is excited about her younger daughter Ahana's "big fat Punjabi wedding" and says that this was something which she missed when she got married to veteran actor Dharmendra.

Ahana, who will tie the knot with Delhi based businessman Vaibhav Vora Sunday, had her mehendi fuction on Friday.

"My marriage happened very quietly and quickly. There was no time or occasion for a big ceremony. But now there is finally going to be a big fat Punjabi wedding in my family," said Hema.

"From the very Punjabi baraati to our doorstep to a very Tamil welcoming of the groom into the mandap (platform for wedding rituals)...I am very excited," she added.

The wedding would have Punjabi as well as South Indian touch to it.

"Like a true Hindi film my daughter's wedding will have two halves. The first-half of the wedding ceremony would be done in Punjabi style. The second-half of the wedding would be done in Tamil style," she said adding that there will be "two pundits (priests), one from north India and the other from the south".

The wedding of her younger daughter comers more than one and a half years after her elder daughter Esha Deol's wedding to diamond merchant Bharat Takhtani. This has made things easier for Hema, but she says that she still has her hands full.

"Luckily for me all the nitty-gritty is being taken care of by my two Bhabhis (sister-in-law), the wives of my two brothers Jagannath and Kannan. I don't know what I'd have done without them," she said.

The bride's father Dharmendra is even more nervous than the bride and her mother.

"I've told Dharamji, tension bilkul nahin lene ka (don't take any tension). He's very nervous and tense. Ahana is his laadli (favourite). I've told him to just relax and leave everything to me and my family...and then of course, there is the events manager, who is following our instructions," she said.