Noted celebrities and top politicos attend, fans requested to keep away.
Southern superstar Rajinikanth's daughter Soundarya, on Friday morning, entered wedlock with Ashwin Kumar, at Rani Meyammai Hall in Chennai.
Many noted celebrities and top political leaders attended the marriage and blessed the couple.
The groom, Ashwin Ramkumar, completed his master's degree from the Stanford University in the USA. He is the son of real estate tycoon Ramkumar, and now looks after his father's business.
Soundarya has a degree in animation. She also directed an animation movie Sultan - The Warrior, which stars Rajini.
Soundarya had got engaged to Ashwin in Feburary this year, in Chennai.
The wedding was performed in typical Iyengar Brahmin style.
Home Minister P Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, film stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sridevi, Boney Kapoor, K Chiranjeevi, D Venkatesh and Eenadu Group chairman Ramoji Rao, and a host of other dignitaries, attended the wedding and blessed the newly-wed couple .
However, AIADMK leader Jayaram Jayalalitha did not turn up for the wedding, as she is in Kodanad hill station to make arrangements for the ensuing Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.
This is a moment Chennai is stopping to watch because this is being termed as the biggest wedding ever in the history of Tamil marriages.
According to reports, Rajini had requested his fans not to attend Soundarya's wedding ceremony. In a statement, the actor said that though he wanted to invite them, he was unable to do so because of space constraints and logistics reasons, but that he still sought their blessings for his daughter.
Rajini himself supervised all the arrangements for the wedding. According to reports, the actor has gifted the couple a brand new apartment.
Courtesy: INN