To her parent’s horror Chiranjeevi’s younger daughter Sreeja, walked out of her home on Wednesday and married her college mate G. Sirish Bharadwaj at the Arya Samaj mandir in Bowenpally. While the wedding went off as planned with a dozen of the couple’s friends, reporters and TV crews in attendance, neither the bride nor the groom’s family was in attendance.
Sirish, the eldest son of G. Venkata Ramana Murthy, an advocate who lives in Begumpet, was introduced to Sreeja by common friends in their college Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology and their friendship soon blossomed into love.
The groom’s mother is a distant relative of Khairtabad MLA P. Janardhan Reddy. While Sreeja’s parents were kept in the dark about her wedding plans, they were fully aware of her feelings for Sirish. And it is said that they tried their best to convince her to break things off with him, but she remained adamant. Finally, on Tuesday night, she rang her soon-to-be-husband up and told him that she will leave home on Wednesday and marry him. While her nuptials did shock many, others weren’t so shocked as some had received invites for the do as one of the guests was seen with a card.
Her parents’ presence at the sudden wedding ceremony might not have been possible but the bride hoped she wouldn’t be denied of their blessings later on. “I am hopeful that my father and mother will bless us,” she said. But in the same breath added, “We need protection for ourselves and my in-laws.” The groom too repeated, “We don’t have any intentions of hurting anyone and have lots of respect for our elders. And I don’t know how my family members will react after they get to know that I am married.” The newly weds are hoping that the police will treat them as common people and won’t succumb to pressure from any quarters.
