RAIPUR: The Pre-wedding shoot in Chhattisgarh is on its way to fall under the category of ‘taboo’. Raising objection over too much of “public display of affection” during pre-wedding video and photography, the Sindhi and Maheshwari communities in Chhattisgarh have issued a diktat of imposing a ban on it with immediate effect, while other communities are planning to follow them.

"The intimate poses and physical proximity during photo shoot are highly objectionable which is later displayed in big screens for people to watch during wedding reception. It's against our culture and the couple is expected to be shy," the community member said.

Talking to TOI, Prakash Bajaj, general secretary of Bharatiya Sindhu Sabha , the biggest organization of Sindhi community across the country said, “Not only the poses and physical intimacy which is beyond limits is objectionable and influenced from movies, the common culture of our society is that we expect the to-be wedded couple behave shy. We are accustomed to perform marriage, ceremonies and rituals within a limit. Instead of banning the pre-wedding shoot, people needs to be made aware that touching each other physically before marriage is highly objectionable.”

As it’s putting bad impact on children who have started feeling that even they have the right to inappropriately touch, the community members are all in favour of imposing ban on the new culture of photo shoot before marriage.

According to information, the issue was raised on several platforms after the “obscene display of intimate photos in public gathering” and few reported cases of break-up between the couple after photo shoot even as the girl got pregnant. Moreover, too much of PDA on social media also didn’t go down well among the members of several communities. They feel it influences other youths who get attracted towards this glamour and follow the same cult.

It was Maheshwari community that took the lead and had recently imposed a blanket ban on it.

When contacted, state organizing incharge of Maheshwari community Rajkumar Rathi , said that pre-wedding shoot culture was sending out a wrong message in society and the bride-groom personal moments are shared on every platform. The purity of marriage gets stained when the couple spend intimacy before marriage, he said adding that the gracefulness of wedding can be maintained only after putting a ban on pre-wedding video and photo shoot.

However, the Maheshwari community which has been facing difference in sex ratio of boys and girls, has also decided to felicitate the mothers of two girls to send out a message of beti bachao.

Representatives of Agrawal Samaj were equally in disagreement to the "western culture" saying, "if pre-wedding shoot kind of culture in promoted, there would be nothing left in society, it should be banned nation-wide, said a member.

