
Lucknow Times: Dil le gayi kudi Japan di
What happens when a Punjabi munda in Amrika decides to wed a Japanese onna-noko (girl)? You can almost hear Gurindar Chadha shouting action as the baujis, beejis and bebes , back in India, run up the telephone bill trying to show their puttar the error of his ways. Scene II: The family hysteria abates. Sadda Jagdeep J Singh flies down with Rie for a traditional Punjabi wedding on Feb 26, 2005..."Cross cultural marriages are in vogue in the US with many Asians settling for spouses from strikingly different cultural background," says JJ, a senior system analyst in Kansas...A Buddhist, Rie on her part finds Indians to be "Super-religious. Japanese simply believe that good goes and come around but are not ritualistic and demonstrative about their beliefs," she explains.