Overview
- Ankit Batra, the singer and Vedic priest who led the rites, released a first-person video Tuesday on his new YouTube channel Voice of Vows, prompting fresh reports on the 2023 ceremony.
- He said The Leela Palace in Udaipur ran like a fortress with a strict no-photos rule, and staff even asked Priyanka Chopra’s mother to delete images from her phone.
- He recalled AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann dancing in the groom’s procession and lifting Raghav Chadha on their shoulders.
- He added that Parineeti Chopra planned a personal touch, entering the mandap to a song she had secretly recorded for Raghav.
- Batra said the pheras, the Hindu vows taken while circling a sacred fire, lasted about one hour and 20 minutes and felt like a conversation that moved guests to tears.