It’s not as easy as it sounds, as resume checks take a lot of time. It can go from Rs 30,000 to lakhs of rupees. You remember when ZooZoos were a thing? We then depicted a love story through a ZooZoo dance item, with real people dressing up as ZooZoo dolls-pink and blue ZooZoos. The family’s mom was the alarm, as she wakes the entire family each morning. This other aunty was like Ola- always available. One uncle was a ‘Gym Uncle’, so he was called ‘Fitness Pro’. Recently, for one wedding, I had to create an AV presentation, where I made different family members into different mobile app icons. We cheat a bit as well and like a stand-up show, do the same joke 50 times. It can be more or less time also, but it depends on how excited they are about the wedding. To do that, we spend some time over a period of two tho three days with the family before writing. With all these, you can go for generic or specific jokes for the family. Sometimes they even ask you to create a love story. If the wedding was arranged, people even want us to write jokes about how sweet the ‘courtship’ period was, using musicals, AVs, poetry, etc. If you are writing for family members who’ll be hosting the event, you make fun of the bride and groom, and their love story. So how is the writing different for when the family is more involved? You give them Chhe-chhe-chho-four Garba jokes, and they’re happy. You can’t be as ‘whacked out’ as Punjabis who can take humour well. In Marwari weddings, the humour has to be subtle. They come to find their ‘life partners’ at Garbas and weddings. In Gujarati weddings, people think of functions as matrimonials. You take perspective and jokes from different communities, and personalise them. There are these genres of people you can always make fun of at Punjabi weddings.ĭoes a lot of humour arise from cliches associated with communities? You don’t even have to wait for the album to come out. Abhi abhi kheechte hain main WhatsApp group pe daal dunga” (Come, come, let’s take a picture now itself, I’ll put it up on a WhatsApp group). This is an uncle who has just learnt to click selfies, so throughout the wedding, he just keeps saying, “Aao ji aao ji group picture ho jaaye.

Then there is always that newly-wed couple that eats from the same plate and walks together to show that they are happily married. There’s a brother-in-law who’s always grumpy one uncle who always gets angry “ki mereko poochha ni” (that I wasn’t tended well to) another type of uncle who will eat everything and still say, “Mazaa ni aaya, kuchh kami re gayi thi” (I didn’t enjoy it, there was something missing) and that one aunty who comes in wearing her own wedding lehenga. Well, if it’s a Punjabi wedding, there are six to seven types of people at every wedding.

Emcee script for wedding