As a wedding photographer, I have seen that weddings are synonymous to Bollywood now a days. Big fat Indian wedding. Larger than life. When I got the chance to shoot this wedding, set in village near Indo-Bangladesh border somehow my inner self provoked me to shoot something different. While travelling to the destination I thought of making a travel story rather than a wedding album. Simple people. Warm and hearty welcome. The arrangements done by locales not involving any event management (not even caterer for the food). The ambiance was perfect.
This wedding is quite different from other Bengali weddings. The Snake Goddess Manasa is worshipped widely which is very much understandable from the fact that the area is full of rivers, water bodies and greenery that lead to availability of snakes. The wedding rituals have a special emphasis on Manasa Puja.
That’s how I shot one of my favorite weddings till date.
Sitalkuchi 2016 - A Rural Bengali Wedding Story By Madhabendu Hensh