Guneet Monga says ‘I’m working on producing my wedding’

• Producer Guneet Monga jokes that the planning for her upcoming wedding to businessman Sunny Kapoor is “like making five films in one go.”
• And she’s enjoying it all since she knows it’ll be a “blockbuster affair.”
• On December 12, the producer is scheduled to wed Kapoor in Mumbai.

Producer Guneet Monga jokes that the planning for her upcoming wedding to businessman Sunny Kapoor is “like making five films in one go.” And she’s enjoying it all since she knows it’ll be a “blockbuster affair.” On December 12, the producer is scheduled to wed Kapoor in Mumbai. There will afterwards be further celebrations in Delhi.

“I’ve manifested a very filmy form in my life, so I’m very excited. We orchestrated a wedding for his grandmother before, so people are confused if we’re married or not. I just know that we belong to each other,” she shares adding, “They (groom’s side) are from Chandni Chowk. We had a very long conversation ke shaadi kahan hogi as all our relatives are from Punjab, Bhopal, Delhi or Mumbai. For me, Mumbai has given me a home even though I was born and brought up in Delhi. I call Mumbai my karam bhumi as it gave me an identity.”

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The 39-year-old bride-to-be further adds, “Since I am way too filmy, I said, ‘Aapko doli toh mere ghar se hi le kar jaani padegi’. That’s how Mumbai was decided. I’d have felt very displaced agar kahin aur hota toh. There are pre-wedding functions in Mumbai, and then a reception and a function to welcome the bride in Delhi.”

When asked if the bridezilla mode is already active, Monga responds that the family’s sisters are more active than her. “They are more protective about me. I’m having a blast. It’s exhausting. Hota hai na koi time off miley to pamper myself. Aisa koi time nahi mil raha hai. I’m still being a producer that I’m still producing the whole wedding,” she laughs.

She’s actually perplexed by how her idea of a little wedding evolved into a gathering that included more than six events. “It has turned out to be a big fat Punjabi wedding. I can’t believe it and I’m in shock ke yeh kaise ho gaya. You’ll see this is my version of intimate. It’s turning out to be a full blockbuster affair.”

Monga had given up on finding her soul mate when she first met Kapoor through a dating app. She then triumphantly declares: “Sunny is the manifestation of everything” she wanted in life.

“I wanted a family, being the only child and not having my own set of grandparents and my set of parents. That got completed with Sunny. There’s a picture of Sunny and me with his parents where we are holding photos of my parents from the engagement. That’s everything in life,” says the Oscar-winning producer, who lost her parents when she was 23.

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Describing her love story, she picks a dialogue from the film Lunchbox: ‘Sometimes the wrong train takes you to the right station’. “I was signed up in every wedding marriage bureau, and was in conversation with various people (potential grooms) because I thought this is the way to go. I was like dating app se nahi hoga. Then I met Sunny on one dating app on a random night. I actually told him that I hope we had met earlier, and that I’m registered at a bureau. My friends made a profile. I saved his name on the phone as ‘Sunny wrong train’, and he saved it as ‘World Famous Monga’. Because my friends had described me on the app like that,” she laughs, revealing that while she has changed the name to Sunny with heart emoji, he hasn’t yet.

Not at all. Monga goes on to explain their love story in more detail and connects it to Shah Rukh Khan. “Sunny’s real name is Sunil Kapoor. I’m a big fan of Shah Rukh Khan, and his name was Sunil in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, which is my favourite film. I keep telling everyone that while people were looking for their Raj, I found my Sunil,” she smiles.

Speaking candidly about her choice to wed, Monga acknowledges that she once gave up on the idea of ever finding a partner. “I had never thought that it would happen with me.. But, with Sunny, it didn’t happen in the first meeting. We chatted for two months because it was during the second lockdown. We chatted as friends because I was so clear that I’ll meet someone through the marriage bureau. When I met him the second time, we just knew,” she wraps up.