Dream wedding for Charan, Upasna

Scores of high-profile guests from across the country and abroad bless the couple

June 15, 2012 09:38 am | Updated July 12, 2016 03:20 am IST - HYDERABAD:

GALA GET-TOGETHER: Actor-turned politician K. Chiranjeevi’s (right) actor son K. Ram Charan Teja tied the knot with Kamineni Upasna, granddaughter of Apollo Hospitals chairman Pratap C. Reddy (left), at a farm house at Moinabad in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh, on Thursday. Governors of AP and Tamil Nadu ESL Narasimhan and K. Rosaiah; AP Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy; TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu; actors Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Ambareesh, Boney Kapoor and his wife Sridevi were present.

GALA GET-TOGETHER: Actor-turned politician K. Chiranjeevi’s (right) actor son K. Ram Charan Teja tied the knot with Kamineni Upasna, granddaughter of Apollo Hospitals chairman Pratap C. Reddy (left), at a farm house at Moinabad in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh, on Thursday. Governors of AP and Tamil Nadu ESL Narasimhan and K. Rosaiah; AP Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy; TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu; actors Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Ambareesh, Boney Kapoor and his wife Sridevi were present.

Ramcharan Tej, son of Telugu film star and Congress MP K. Chiranjeevi tied the knot with Upasna Kamineni, grand-daughter of Pratap C. Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Group of Hospitals at a glittering ceremony here on Thursday morning.

As guests walked into Temple Trees, the venue, the sheer grandeur reminded them of an opera, complete with small balconies and thousands of pearls strung all the way.

That was the backdrop of the wedding at Temple Trees, a farmhouse near here, attended by scores of high-profile guests from across the country and abroad.

The reception committee comprised Mr. Chiranjeevi's brothers Pawan Kalyan and Nagendra Babu, brother-in-law Allu Arvind and his son Arjun on behalf of the groom, while on the bride's side, it was Dr. Pratap Reddy himself.

They outdid themselves playing a modest role and maintaining a low-profile as they welcomed hundreds of guests, VIPs them all.

Upasna, was decked up in a Tarun Tahiliani outfit of yellow and gold silk sari with a Swarovski-encrusted border and embellished with ‘zardosi' French knots and a smattering of tiny semi-precious stones.

The look was rounded off with a pink ‘zardosi' corset (blouse) and a veil.

Ramcharan Tej, the groom sported a sherwani by the same designer.

Superstars Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, a dazzling Sridevi with husband Boney Kapoor, Manchu Mohan Babu, Venkatesh, Suhasini Maniratnam, Ambareesh, blessed the newly weds.

Governors, E.S.L. Narasimhan (Andhra Pradesh) and K. Rosaiah (Tamil Nadu), Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu, TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao and several Ministers, MPs and MLAs and others greeted the couple.

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