Newlyweds Prateik Babbar and Priya Banerjee break their silence on Babbar family’s absence from their wedding: ‘Everyone who mattered was there’ | Hindi Movie News – The Times of India

Prateik Babbar and Priya Banerjee tied the knot on Valentine’s Day in an intimate ceremony, selecting to have fun their love in a deeply private approach. The couple opted for a ghar ki shaadi, marrying within the very home that Prateik’s late mom, legendary actress Smita Patil, had bought in Bandra, Mumbai.
The wedding ceremony was a personal affair attended solely by shut household and associates. Pre-wedding ceremony rituals, together with haldi and mehendi, preceded the normal ceremony. Nevertheless, the absence of the Babbar household, together with Prateik’s father, veteran actor-politician Raj Babbar, and his half-siblings, Aarya and Juhi Babbar, sparked hypothesis.
Addressing the rumours, Priya Banerjee clarified that no vital member of the family was absent. Chatting with Hindustan Times, she mentioned, “There was completely no member of the family who was lacking from the marriage or our celebrations. I do not know why there are rumours that “members of the family” have been absent. Our households the place there together with my dad and mom, his aunts who raised him, his nana-nani and everybody who mattered and is household was with us. And there was completely no one who is household was lacking.”
The couple had all the time been open about their relationship, although their sudden wedding ceremony took some abruptly. Priya mirrored on the transition, saying, “Truthfully, being married to Prateik and being married did not really feel any completely different. We had been collectively for a really very long time. It had been nearly 5 years, we had lived beneath the identical roof. Greater than that, I felt like I had identified him eternally. It felt the identical.”
Prateik, on the opposite hand, seen their bond as one thing past simply this lifetime. Including a philosophical contact, he shared, “It felt like I was doing this for the thousandth time. This was like one other lifetime, one other universe. I felt like I married her in each lifetime and each universe, and this was one other one… and there have been many extra to go.”

In the meantime, Aarya Babbar expressed his disappointment over being excluded. Chatting with ETimes a day earlier than the marriage, he mentioned, “No person from the Babbar household was invited—not even my father.” He additionally hinted at exterior affect, including, “I presume somebody has overpowered his mind an excessive amount of. He isn’t wanting to attach with anybody from this facet of the household.”
Following the marriage, Aarya additional criticized Prateik’s determination, calling it disrespectful to their late mom, Smita Patil. In an interview with Hindustan Times, he mentioned, “Foremost iss hadd tak kehta hoon ki theek hai hamari maa Naadira ko nahi bulana chahte the woh, for no matter cause… I’ll give him the profit of the doubt. He did not need to invite me or my sister Juuhi (Babbar), okay. However no less than he ought to have invited that individual who Smita maa had beloved, his father. Yeh cheez disrespect hai in direction of Smita maa.”

This marks Prateik’s second marriage after his earlier union with Sanya Sagar.