He is not
covering your wedding.
He is at it.

Arshaan Gandhi has photographed more than a hundred Indian weddings and some of the most recognised faces in Hindi film — Kareena Kapoor Khan, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Shraddha Kapoor among them. Two practices, one rule: be in position before the moment, and never be the reason it changes.

He has spent his working life inside Indian weddings — the long ones, the loud ones, the ones that change shape twice before the day arrives — and he shoots them as a participant, not a supplier.

The training

He trained under Ravi Mistry and holds a diploma from his institute. What he took from it was less a style than a discipline: what to shoot, and more usefully, what to leave alone. It is why his frames are never crowded, and why he almost never has to stop a room and reset it.

What the sets taught him

Celebrity and on-set work is short windows, fixed light and a room full of people waiting on a single frame. Nobody offers a second take. Speed, positioning, reading a room a beat before it moves — everything he learned there comes with him to every wedding.

How a wedding day runs

He arrives early and spends the first stretch not shooting at all — meeting the family, working out who is who, who will be overwhelmed and who is quietly running the whole thing. By the time the first function starts, he is a familiar face rather than a stranger with a lens, and people stop performing for him.

From there he is largely invisible. He directs when a moment genuinely needs it — a portrait, a stage photograph, a group that would otherwise never assemble — and then gets out of the way again. Candid is not a style he offers; it is what is left when nobody is being managed.

Where he works

Across India and abroad, for weddings and sets alike. Travel and accommodation are arranged by the family and settled in writing well before the date, so nothing about logistics is being negotiated in the week of a wedding.

Who turns up

Arshaan. He leads and shoots every wedding he accepts — that is the whole proposition. Around him, a crew sized to the schedule and the venue: candid and traditional photographers, cinematographers, an aerial pilot where it is allowed. A one-day wedding and a five-day one are not the same job, and they are not staffed like one.

The clearest way to judge any of this is the work itself — eight weddings shown start to finish, or the detail of what actually gets delivered.