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Wedding Fashion Tips 2018-19: Know How to Style Accessories Like Mathapatti and Nose Rings – LatestLY
The year-end time is also a time for many weddings. The wedding season is a stressful time for not just those getting married but also those who have a lot of weddings to attend. Weddings call for the best time to deck up and put a fashionable foot forward. Other than choosing traditional clothes, one must also choose accessories carefully. The styling of accessories is also an important part of wedding fashion. This wedding season you can opt for trendy nose pins and mang tikka, matha pattis to add to your festive look. Wedding Jewellery Styles 2018-2019: Trending Accessories to Adorn This Wedding Season.
Make a unique statement this wedding season by styling your wedding trousseau with trendy matha patti and nose rings. Jagrati Shringi, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Voylla and Razia Kunj, Artisinal Jewellery Designer, list down some jewellery styling tips for you to dazzle on your special day. Wedding Fashion Trends 2018-19: List of Trendy Traditional Looks For Big Fat Indian Weddings.
Side-swept style: One of the hottest styles of maang tikkas that every bride loves adorn nowadays. This style is commonly called as ‘Nawabi style and half matha patti’. This matha patti falls on the side of the forehead, instead of being placed in the center.
Over-sized matha patti: If you want to make a distinct look on your wedding day, you can opt for bigger-sized matha patti. You can pick any style — from floral or circular pattern studded with different stones that will make you stand out as the bride with the most elegant taste.
Nathani: Inspired by the brides from Rajasthan, Gujarat and other western parts of India, women are opting for circular nathani with or without chain. But while accessorising, the nose ring one should always be careful as it may overpower your personality.
Nose pins: A lot of young generation likes to pair smaller nose pins with their western wear thus creating a statement through fusion. While donning chunky Nose pin, one must be careful of their face cut and structure.
Necklace and earrings are the obvious jewellery which you’d wear on your outfits but nosepins and maang tika or maath patti add more details to your look. They highlight your face even better and add to the festive look. (With IANS Inputs)
Hate Mail and Conversion Advice: Interfaith Couple Caught in Israel’s Fault Lines – The New York Times
JERUSALEM — For as long as she has anchored her own television news program — about five years, in different iterations — Lucy Aharish has always opened by greeting her viewers in both Hebrew and Arabic.
It’s only natural: She is Israeli — born and raised in Dimona — and Arab and Muslim, the daughter of parents who moved to the south from Nazareth. Her frequent monologues are a trademark and have sometimes resonated far afield: Impassioned diatribes about the failure of both the West and Arab leaders to protect innocent victims of the Syrian civil war were seen by millions of viewers worldwide.
Yet, because so few Arabs and Muslims have prominent roles in Hebrew-language news in Israel, and because racism is so commonplace in Israeli society, Ms. Aharish says, she continues to receive a steady supply of hate mail merely for adding “masa’a al-kheir” to the “erev tov” she wishes her audience at the top of each weeknight show.
She ignores most complaints, but one letter a month ago stirred her interest. The anonymous writer called her Arabic salutations “inappropriate and very jarring,” and said it was “improper” for the station to allow them. Yet the writer sounded respectful, and closed with an old-fashioned Hebrew expression: “Alu v’hatzlichu,” or “Go forth and succeed.”
Ms. Aharish posted the missive online and drew comments praising her support for coexistence and religious tolerance, most of them from Israeli Jews — including some who took note of the letter writer’s polished Hebrew phraseology.
On Monday, however, the same anonymous viewer renewed his complaint in a more belligerent tone. If Ms. Aharish needed the “relief” of speaking Arabic, he wrote in an email, “let her go to the bathroom, give a speech in Arabic to the toilet bowl and come back and talk to us only in Hebrew.” If it was so important to her, he said, “let her go to Al-Jazeera.”
Ms. Aharish shared this screed online, too. But that was not enough for her.
She had been struck by the musicality of the first, more respectful letter, she said. So she asked her husband — Tsahi Halevi, a well-known Israeli actor and singer-songwriter — to help her set it to music.
On Wednesday night, Mr. Halevi brought a guitar to the set of “Sichat Hayom” (“Today’s Conversation”), his wife’s half-hour show on Israel’s Channel 13. Just before the credits rolled, he sang the letter in a plaintive, minor-key tune, with Ms. Aharish chiming in on the refrain: “masa’a al-kheir,” the offending hello.
It was a witty rejoinder to an unseen umbrage-taker. The clip spread rapidly on social media in Israel.
The duet was both a striking tableau and a tentative stepping out for a husband and wife who had earned fame in the Israeli art and media worlds very much on their own, only to be attacked when their marriage became public.
Ms. Aharish, 37, and Mr. Halevi, 43, a star of the Netflix hit series “Fauda,” who is Jewish, had kept their relationship secret even from some members of their families before they married on Oct. 10 in a private interfaith ceremony.
No sooner had their wedding been reported than the interior minister, Aryeh Deri, condemned their union as an example of assimilation that he said was “consuming the Jewish people,” and urged Ms. Aharish to convert, lest their children face “serious problems.”
A right-wing lawmaker known for rabble-rousing, Oren Hazan, accused Mr. Halevi of becoming “Islamicized” and suggested he had gotten carried away with his role in “Fauda” as an Israeli counterterrorism agent who goes undercover as an Arab.
It wasn’t just from politicians that they encountered criticism, Ms. Aharish said. A woman on a motorcycle accosted her husband on the street in Tel Aviv, warning him that “ ‘What you’re doing is a big mistake, and we need to talk about it,’ ” she said. “It’s amazing that people feel they can be involved in the decisions you make in your private life.”
But Ms. Aharish and Mr. Halevi got support in some quarters, even from other politicians, and many Jewish TV colleagues went on the air and wished them “mabrouk” and “mazal tov.”
Jewish-Muslim marriages are relatively uncommon in Israel, although Arab citizens make up some 21 percent of the population, and those Muslim-Jewish couples who do tie the knot rarely garner much attention. But the Aharish-Halevi union may have been the first such high-profile, celebrity wedding.
Lehava, a far-right Jewish extremist group, has long campaigned against assimilation; some of its leaders were detained for questioning last year, suspected of intimidation for allegedly threatening Arab men who were dating young Jewish women.
Israel is replete with opinionated people, of course; and Ms. Aharish is no exception. On her return to the anchor’s chair in October after her wedding, Ms. Aharish delivered a broadside against politicians who had bothered to pontificate about her marriage when serious social and security problems — women being murdered, sick children waiting for their medications, the “burning south” near the Gaza border — were languishing unsolved.
Mr. Halevi, for his part, suggested that Mr. Hazan instead “occupy himself with love.”
On Wednesday, the newlyweds concluded their song with a mock marital spat poking fun at the sensibilities of anyone irked by the sound of Arabic, or by the idea of Mr. Halevi and Ms. Aharish living happily ever after.
Mr. Halevi grumbled that he was going “crazy” with “that masa’a al-kheir” and stalked off the set.
“Darling,” Ms. Aharish called after him, as if she would be following him home shortly and would need a shower at the end of her shift, “turn on the hot water, will you?”
Netflix's 'A Christmas Prince: Royal Wedding' recast Amber's dad – INSIDER
- Amber’s dad, Rudy, was completely recast for the new sequel, “A Christmas Prince: Royal Wedding.”
- We didn’t even notice the character was recast until revisiting the first film.
- Upon further investigation, it’s very clear that the character was rewritten to bring more comedy to the movie.
In “A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding,” Amber’s dad, Rudy Moore, is played by a different actor than in the first film. But you probably won’t even notice: I didn’t until I revisited the first movie right after watching the second.
And upon further investigation, it is very clear that the two Rudys are completely different characters, whose only similarities are that they’re Amber’s dad, they own a diner in Brooklyn, New York, and they’re obsessed with hot dogs.
In 2017’s “A Christmas Prince,” Daniel Fathers plays Rudy. This version of the character mostly appears in the movie to give Amber encouragement and advice, including things like, “You know, failures plant the seed for the greater success down the road,” and “Peanut, this sounds like it’s going to be your big break.” He has somewhat of a Brooklyn accent, but it’s not heavy.
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Rudy gives Amber advice at his diner in “A Christmas Prince.” Netflix
But in “The Royal Wedding,” Rudy goes through a transformation. Now played by John Guerrasio, Rudy has a heavy accent and mostly exists for comic relief. Rudy 2 also has an incredibly heavy Brooklyn accent, thinks Aldovia is called “Aldovenia”and says things like, “I went to Caesar’s Palace once.” In other words, Rudy 2 is much more entertaining than Rudy 1.
The second Rudy has a little more personality. Netflix
Early on in “The Royal Wedding,” an exchange between Amber and Princess Emily briefly addresses the recasting. Amber and Rudy just arrived in Aldovia, and Rudy is meeting all of the royals for the first time. Princess Emily says that Rudy looks very different in person.
“I thought he had a goatee,” she says.
“He shaved it for the wedding,” Amber says.
It’s such a brief interaction that you might miss it. Netflix
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Indian woman arrested for marrying '17-year-old' – BBC News
Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have arrested a 20-year-old woman for marrying a 17-year-old boy.
The woman and the couple’s five-month-old daughter have been in prison for the past fortnight.
She was arrested after the teenager’s mother lodged a police complaint. She has been charged under the stringent child sex abuse act.
The woman says their relationship is consensual, and also contests the claim that her husband is underage.
Although the age of consent for sex in India for all genders is 18, the legal age for marriage is 18 years for women and 21 years for men.
So in this case, police have also charged the woman under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.
The BBC’s Geeta Pandey in Delhi says it’s a rare case where a woman has been arrested for marrying an underage man. There are many instances where young men in consensual relationships have been arrested after complaints from the parents of girls who are less than 18 years of age.
The teenager’s mother registered a complaint with the police in December last year accusing the woman and her family of kidnapping her son and forcing him into marriage, a Mumbai police official told BBC Hindi.
He said they carried out the arrest after a thorough inquiry and taking legal advice because the accused was a woman.
In the complaint, the mother also said that her son had been in contact with the woman for two years and that she had threatened to kill herself if he stopped meeting her.
The woman has filed a bail petition where she has claimed that her husband is over 18 and that their relationship is consensual, according to Indian media reports.
She says that he has two sisters aged 20 and 18 so it’s not possible for him to be 17 years and eight months old.
