Indian weddings.
They are called big and fat for a reason.
When indian parents are not busy in competing with each other over their sons' achievements, they would be trying to outdo each other over their daughters weddings.
It was no different for a diamond tycoon from Surat, Mahesh Savani.
From 2010 onwards, he held lavish weddings for his daughters.
Every single year.
Normally, one would associate events like these with wasteful expenditure, but this is not your typical wedding.
The brides involved are not his biological daughters.
Mahesh Savani has held weddings of over 3000 couples so far, acting as the bride's 'father'. All of the brides are either orphans or belong to poor families.
All of them belong to different communities, castes and even religions.
In 2018, 261 brides, including six Muslim and three Christian couples, tied the knot with their grooms in a ceremony administered by Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani.
Each couple was given household items and money of 2,00,000 rupees to start their lives.
In 2008, when he took over the responsibility of organizing the marriage of the daughter of a distant relative who had passed away, Mahesh realised that there were many girls who suffer the same fate. Hence, he undertook this journey.
To become a 'father' to India's struggling daughters.
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