Actor Swara Bhasker, who married activist Fahad Zirar Ahmad yesterday, put out an appreciation post on Twitter for the Special Marriage Act, which applies to interfaith marriages.
"Three cheers for the #SpecialMarriageAct (despite notice period etc.) At least it exists and gives love a chance... The right to love, the right to choose your life partner, the right to marry, the right to agency, these should not be a privilege," Swara Bhasker tweeted this morning, tagging her new husband.
Three cheers for the #SpecialMarriageAct (despite notice period etc.) At least it exists & gives love a chance… The right to love, the right to choose your life partner, the right to marry, the right to agency these should not be a privilege.@FahadZirarAhmad
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) February 17, 2023
✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️ pic.twitter.com/4wORvgSKDR
She also shared that she "made Fahad Zirar Ahmad wear colour" as they signed the court documents to legalise their wedding under the Special Marriage Act. "Now to prep for shehnai-wala shaadi (wedding)," she said. The couple has planned a grand wedding in March.
Photos posted by the actor showed the couple dancing after the signing ceremony at a court in Mumbai.
So blessed to be supported and cheered by the love of family and friends like family! Wore my mother's sari & her jewellery.. made @FahadZirarAhmad wear colour :) and we registered under the #SpecialMarriageAct
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) February 17, 2023
Now to prep for shehnaii-wala shaadi ♥️✨@theUdayB pic.twitter.com/YwLS5ARbj4
Swara Bhasker, 34, has shared glimpses of her relationship and wedding in a series of photos and videos on social media since yesterday.
"Sometimes you search far and wide for something that was right next to you all along. We were looking for love, but we found friendship first. And then we found each other! Welcome to my heart Fahad Zirar Ahmad. It's chaotic but it's yours!" she wrote in her surprise wedding announcement yesterday.
Sometimes you search far & wide for something that was right next to you all along. We were looking for love, but we found friendship first. And then we found each other!
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) February 16, 2023
Welcome to my heart @FahadZirarAhmad It's chaotic but it's yours! ♥️✨🧿 pic.twitter.com/GHh26GODbm
A video montage captured her love story, playing out against the backdrop of anti-citizenship law protests in Delhi where she met Fahad Ahmad, whose bio describes him as the president of a youth wing of the Samajwadi Party.
The newlyweds, twinning in crimson silk, were seen in various photos walking hand in hand, dancing, and posing with family and friends.
Fahad Ahmad shared the post.
I never knew chaos can be so beautiful ❤️
— Fahad Ahmad (@FahadZirarAhmad) February 16, 2023
Thank you for holding my hand love @ReallySwara 😘😘 https://t.co/ivKVsZrMyx
The two met on the stage during a protest in January 2020 against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), widely criticised as a discriminatory law that makes religion a factor for nationality and seeks to fast-track citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before 2015.
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