Vishal Punjabi is the founder and director of The Wedding Filmer, an organisation that shoots weddings. He has shot weddings of celebrities like Anushka Sharma-Virat Kohli and Bipasha Basu-Karan Singh Grover. Recently, we met Vishal and spoke to him about shooting Virushka’s wedding.
Anushka and Virat had a secret wedding in Italy and till the pictures of them came out everyone was just speculating about the wedding. When asked Vishal how difficult it was for him to keep a secret that Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli are getting married, he said, “That’s the hardest part in the celebrity weddings, learning how to keep your mouth shut. It’s very exciting, but in Anushka and Virat’s case, we didn’t know it was them until we got to Italy. There’s a lot of thinking on the feature when you do a wedding like these because then there’s not a lot of planning that you can do.”
When probed that he actually went for a wedding where he didn’t know who the bride and groom are, Vishal said, “It goes against everything we do, but luckily the planners who were doing it, The Shaadi Squad, they are good friends of mine and they know what they are doing. So, I trusted them and landed up there, and I was grateful.”
When pictures of a celebrity’s wedding come out on social media, people say that they are faking it for the camera. When asked Vishal if those moments are real or some people fake it for the camera, he said, “Celebrity or not, if you are getting married and you are in love, whoever you are it is very hard to fake that emotion because love is quite in your face when you are getting married. It’s the reason you there. It’s not very easy to fake it, I don’t think anybody can.”
No final blueprint exists for the show's conclusion.
The original ending plan from season 15 is totally scrapped.
Fan devotion is the reason for the 22-season marathon.
Rhimes suggests the audience now holds a stake in the finale decision.
Aiming for a positive send-off, but no timeline is on the table.
The woman who built Grey’s Anatomy from scratch has no idea how it ends. Seriously. That’s wild, right? After 450 episodes and this current Grey’s Anatomy season 22, the person who started it all is just as in the dark as we are. She thought it would be over years ago. This whole endless Shondaland saga? It’s on you: the fans.
Shonda Rhimes admits she no longer knows how Grey’s Anatomy will end Getty Images/Instagram/greysabc
Whatever happened to the original ending?
Gone. Rhimes had one, way back. When the series hit roughly its 150th episode, she already had the final moment mapped out. But things didn’t go as planned and the story just kept expanding. She once imagined it would all wrap up by the fourth or fifth season. Now, seeing it still running strong in 2024, she can only call it “insane.”
This is the interesting bit. Rhimes is handing over some of the keys. She says the decision isn't really just hers any more. It's the fans' and the cast's. There's a debt there, you know? After all, they’ve stuck with it. So, ending it feels like a group vote. She can't just yank the cord without a nod from the crowd. It’s their show as much as hers, maybe more.
What can we expect from the finale whenever it comes?
No date, no plot details. Rhimes just has a vibe she's chasing. She wants it to be "positive," a "great way" to finish. It's vague, sure, but it tells you something. She's not planning some brutal, everyone-dies cliffhanger. Maybe. Probably. The goal seems to be satisfaction over shock. But with this show, who knows? They could change their minds ten times before the final script is printed.
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