Hyderabad gearing up for Salman Khan sister' marriage

Hyderabad gearing up for Salman Khan sister' marriage

It is going to be a wedding made in heaven for Arpita Khan, younger sister of actor Salman Khan and her beau Aayush Sharma, son of politician Anil Sharma. The wedding is scheduled to be held at the Falaknuma palace of Hyderabad, for two days -- Nov18 &19th.

Top Bollywood stars will be attending and Salman has left no stone unturned to please his younger sister. The superstar has booked the entire hotel for two days so that no one else can gatecrash the celebrations. The five star heritage, scorpion shaped Falaknuma on the top of a hillock in old city, which belonged to the last Nizam, is managed by the Taj Group. Located five kilometers from Charminar, Falaknuma was once the residence of sixth Nizam Mir Mahboob Ali Khan.

The palace, which the Taj Group converted into a luxury hotel four years ago, has 60 lavish rooms, decorated halls and a 101-seat dining hall, said to be the biggest in the world. Its Durbal Hall, embellished with intricately carved wooden ceilings, parquet flooring, walnut wood furniture and handcrafted mirrors, had once hosted guests like King George V and Czar Nicholas II. Sources said Hyderabad-born actress Dia Mirza also wanted to celebrate her wedding at Falaknuma but negotiations for a better price did not work out.

Sources say the Falakuna bill could be around Rs2 crore for two days, as each room costs around Rs40,000 per night. However the Nizam suite, the costliest suite, will costs around Rs5 lakh per night. The Khan family is keen to have around 32 Hyderabadi delicacies to be included in the menu.

The menu also includes other north Indian and oriental dishes." Main dinner on Tuesday will be mostly a Hyderabadi fare, Kachche Gosht Ki Biryani' and Haleem are the two favorite dishes of the Khan Brothers as they have tasted the two dishes here at the restaurant," says a spokesman of the hotel. Even the invitation card sent to select guests is extravagant - silver card with pearls inlaid.

The Khan's have already informed the South Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police V Satyanarayana and sought security bandobast for the VIP guests expected to attend the wedding besides a posse of 50 odd security guards from Mumbai. On his part, Salman has invited President of India and also Prime Minister and Congress president Sonia Gandhi but none have confirmed till now.

Four chartered flights will bring Salman and his party from Mumbai and Delhi . He has also made arrangements to airlift the entire make up team, wedding planners, caterers and decoration team for mehendi and sangeet from Mumbai.

In all 400 guests are expected to arrive at the Falaknuma Palace by Tuesday morning. Apart from Sharukh Khna, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone and Kareena Kapoor Khan Saif Ali Khan, Dharmendra, his wife Hema Malini, Karan Johar, David Dhawan include in the guest list. Sharukh has already visited Salman's house in Mumbai and blessed Arpita burying eight year long enmity with Salman.The doyens of Tollywood like Chiranjeevi, son Ram Charan Teja, Nagarjuna, Venkatesh , producer Dil Raju are invited. Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and AP CM Chandrababu Naidu are also expected to be present at the event.