Mumbai: As Karwa Chauth begins, Bollywood divas are gearing up to celebrate the festival with love and joy. Parineeti Chopra, Shilpa Shetty, Sonam Kapoor and Bhagyashree are among the stars sharing glimpses of their preparations ahead of the significant day, which falls on October 20 this year.
For Maheep Kapoor, jewellery designer and former model, celebrating Karwa Chauth is all about “small things that count”. “The one rule Sanjay follows is that he doesn’t shoot around this time. And while he and I don’t have a personal ritual per se, he is always on time on Karwa Chauth, usually being the first husband to reach the venue, and I feel touched by that,” the 42-year-old shares, adding that the day is a reminder of “how important we are to each other.”
Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor revealed she doesn’t observes the Karwa Chauth fast. The actress took to her Instagram Stories and revealed that she doesn’t follow the tradition. However, she does enjoy the festivities around it. Sonam joined her family on Saturday night to apply mehendi and sit with fellow married women who were observing the fast.
Know The Tradition
Hindu women across the country are observing the Nirjala fast and celebrating the auspicious festival of Karwa Chauth on October 20, Sunday. On this day, women do not eat or drink anything until moonrise to pray for the longevity of their husbands. Pictures are coming in from all over India as women get their hands decorated with henna, buy beautiful new clothes, sieves, bangles, all for the festival. Celebrities such as Katrina Kaif, Kiara Advani, Rakul Preet Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Priyanka Chopra are also expected to observe the fast and share pictures with their husbands in the evening after the moon-sighting.
On Karwa Chauth, married women follow the ‘nirjala’ fast without food and water, and the Moon plays an extremely important role in fasting. Women can break their fast after the sighting of the ‘Moon’.
After watching the Moon from a sieve, fasting women offer Arghaya to the Moon and break the fast by eating a morsel of food and a sip of water from their husband’s hands.
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