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NEW DELHI: The wedding invitation is an MF Husain painting — done specially for the occasion. The high profile nuptials of Renuka Hinduja, daughter of Prakash Hinduja, with Swiss lawyer Olivier Cavadini, is definitely the biggest ticket event on Mumbai’s social calendar in many months. While the guest list includes top political and business leaders from various countries across which the Hinduja group’s multi-billion dollar business empire is spread and who’s who from corporate and political circles in India — the wedding and reception on October 1 and mehendi and sangeet ceremonies on September 29, will be traditional and simple affairs.

Renuka Hinduja, also a lawyer in Switzerland, met her fiancé professionally. “Though the family is global — having moved out of India many years ago and have businesses spread across the world, they are very traditional and have deep-rooted and orthodox Indian values.

They always come back to India for their social family events and the last wedding — of Dheeraj, Gopichand Hinduja’s son and Ajay and Ramkrishan, the sons of Prakash Hinduja, were celebrated together in Mumbai. The underlying theme of all weddings and family functions is traditional rather than glitz and glamour,” sources within the Hinduja group told ET.

Two of the Hinduja brothers — GP and SP — live in London while Prakash is based in Geneva. The fourth brother — Ashok — lives in Mumbai. While the invitation for the triple wedding — way back in 1996 — was in the form of a vedic book which quoted passages from the scriptures — Husain’s creation too is replete with traditional symbolism. “Lord Ganesha is the central deity while the groom on a horse is also typically north Indian.

The Swiss horn — that the groom is blowing — represents his nationality while the veena is an evocation of Goddess Saraswati, after whom the bride is named. Husain is a very close friend of the family and was commissioned to specially design the wedding card. Twenty years ago, he had also designed the invitation card for Srichand Hinduja’s daughter too,” sources said.

While the wedding and other ceremonies will be held at the Hinduja family residence Param Jamuna in Juhu, the reception is being organised at Mumbai’s Grand Hyatt hotel. And even though there will be no alcohol served at any of the parties, an exotic vegetarian cuisine — representing different regions of India — will be spread out for the guests — many of whom are flying in from different parts of the world.