Vivah rerun: UP bride suffers burn injuries, groom marries him in hospital

In a moving scene from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, a man married his fiance at a hospital after she was severely injured in a fire incident that took place just days ahead of their scheduled wedding.

The emotional moment was reminiscent of the 2006 Bollywood film Vivah, in which Prem (Shahid Kapoor) married Poonam (Amrita Rao) while she was admitted to a hospital after sustaining burn injuries in a blaze.

Something very similar transpired in Kanpur, where Vikas and Shweta were set to get married on Thursday. However, a mishap occurred at the woman's house on Wednesday evening amid pre-wedding rituals when a leakage in a gas cylinder pipe caused a fire there.

In the ensuing panic and attempts to douse the blaze, the situation took a turn for the worse when a cooking pot filled with hot oil overturned.

The incident left Shweta and 11 others injured. Though all of them were initially rushed to a government hospital, the bride-to-be was later shifted to a private one due to the severity of her burn injuries.

Upon learning about the incident, Vikas, arrived at the hospital with his family. Despite advice from relatives, he refused to postpone the wedding and insisted that he would stand beside his fiance under all circumstances.

With permission from the hospital authorities and blessings from the two families, preparations were started to turn the private hospital's burn ward into a symbolic wedding venue.

At the actual ceremony, Vikas applied sindoor on Shweta's head and the couple took their wedding vows. They also exchanged garlands as part of the rituals.

Hospital staff and family members present at the scene were visibly moved by the scene. Doctors treating Shweta have said that her condition is stable and improving.

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