Media frenzy as Hurley, Nayar tie knot in lavish Hindu ceremony

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007

JODHPUR, India (AFP) — British actress Elizabeth Hurley and her Indian husband Arun Nayar held a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony Friday as police clashed with crowds of paparrazi trying to snap the gala event.

Journalists and onlookers were hurt in the melee as photographers, who have been kept away from the star-studded celebrations, jostled with police and private security guards outside the wedding dinner in an ancient fort.

Hurley, 41, who is also a model and former partner of actor Hugh Grant, married 42-year-old businessman Nayar at an English castle last week before flying here with 250 high-society guests for Indian wedding festivities.

The couple circled a ritual fire seven times accompanied by the chanting of Hindu verses and blowing of conch...