Mumbai rarely stays quiet for long. But when the first photographs from Arjun Tendulkar’s pre-wedding ceremonies began circulating this week, what struck most people wasn’t the grandeur, it was the calm.
No overwhelming crowds. No over-the-top production. Just a warmly lit venue, the low hum of conversation, and guests who clearly knew each other well. For the wedding of Sachin Tendulkar’s son, that restraint felt deliberate and, frankly, refreshing.
The multi-day celebrations for Arjun Tendulkar and Saaniya Chandhok are now officially underway in Mumbai, with the main wedding ceremony scheduled for March 5, 2026.
The Family Walked In Together and That Was Enough
Sachin came in wearing an emerald kurta with a printed jacket over it. Anjali was in deep blue, lots of jewellery, looked wonderful. Sara’s pink mirror-work lehenga got shared about ten thousand times before the evening was even over, which was probably inevitable.
Arjun walked in with them. Saaniya joined shortly after in a pastel lehenga the kind of outfit that suggests someone made a deliberate choice not to compete with the room, which honestly takes more confidence than going loud.
They stood outside and greeted people. Photographers did what photographers do. Someone kept saying “one more, one more.” Normal wedding chaos, just quieter than expected.
Half the Indian Cricket Team Was There and It Stopped Feeling Like a Wedding
This is the part that people keep talking about.
Zaheer Khan came with Sagarika Ghatge. Harbhajan brought Geeta Basra. Yuvraj and Hazel Keech. Ravi Shastri. Irfan Pathan and Safa Baig. These are people who played Test cricket together, who sat in the same dressing rooms for years, who have watched each other go through careers and retirements and everything that comes after.
Putting them all back in the same room for the first time in who knows how long the wedding became almost a backdrop to that. You’d see two of them in a corner, clearly deep into some old story, and the whole formal event just faded out for a moment.
That’s a rare thing to get right at a big function. Usually these events are too structured for any of that to happen naturally. Something about this one let it.
There Was a Puja in Jamnagar Before Any of This
Before Mumbai, both families gathered in Jamnagar for a traditional prayer ceremony. It was held at a venue connected to the Ambanis, Mukesh and Nita and kept deliberately small. Close family, a priest, the usual: Sanskrit shlokas, diyas, incense, the works.
The whole thing probably lasted under twenty minutes.
There’s something about those short ceremonies that hits differently from the big reception nights. Nobody’s performing for a crowd. The priest finishes, someone touches someone’s feet, and that’s it. People who attend them talk about those twenty minutes for months. The reception they forget by Tuesday.
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Saaniya Chandhok – Here’s What You Should Actually Know
Most of the coverage has focused on Arjun, which makes sense given his last name. But Saaniya’s family background is worth paying attention to.
Her grandfather is Ravi Ghai, who runs the Graviss Group. If you’ve ever walked into a Baskin-Robbins in India and most people have that’s his family’s doing. They brought the brand here in the early nineties and built it out across the country. The group has deep roots in hospitality and food, and that’s not a small thing in terms of who shows up to your wedding.
So this isn’t purely a cricket gathering. There are going to be businesspeople, hospitality names, family friends from a completely different world sitting alongside former Indian cricketers. That mix of backgrounds is actually what makes it interesting from a guest-list perspective.
People Noticed the Watches. Of Course They Did.
Irfan Pathan and Safa Baig both came wearing Rolexes, and once someone pointed it out, it became its own small conversation.
Safa had on a Lady-Datejust President estimated at around ₹33 lakh. Irfan went with a Datejust 41mm, somewhere in the ₹11 lakh range. So together, roughly ₹44 lakh sitting on their wrists while they attended a wedding where the general vibe was understated and personal.
Their clothes were simple. Which is exactly why the watches stood out.
What Kind of Wedding Is This Actually Going to Be?
Big, but not loud. That seems to be the answer so far.
The guest list reportedly includes prominent names outside of sport and business public figures, people from various industries, long-standing family connections on both sides. The functions are spread across multiple cities. By any measure, this is a significant event.
But the tone hasn’t shifted into spectacle. Not yet, anyway. The early ceremonies felt like they were designed for the people in the room, not for the cameras outside. Whether that holds through the main wedding on March 5 is another question but right now, the Tendulkar-Chandhok wedding is shaping up as something you don’t see that often at this level.
An event that still feels like it actually belongs to the two people getting married.
That’s worth something.
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