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Vivah may not have exactly set the Box Office afire, but it has been appreciated by some Bollywood lovers. One such fan of the movie is the actress Kangana who feels that the movie bears an uncanny resemblance to her sister life.

"When friends told me Vivah is my sister's story I couldn't believe it. But there are uncanny similarities between what happens to the girl in Vivah and my sister's life. Both are about small-town girls engaged to devoted men. In Vivah the girl gets burnt just before her wedding and her fiancé stands by her in spite of the haadsa. That's precisely what happened with my sister Rangoli. After her face was burnt in an acid attack, her fiancé stood by her exactly like Shahid Kapoor. They're going to get married in February."

"She'll return shortly. But until she does, I feel a strange emptiness in my life and house. This whole traumatic time after her accident gave us time to bond like never before. I never felt closer to Rangoli. And she to me. I can hardly wait for her vivah to happen."

"If my film Woh Lamhe was Parveen Babi's story, Vivah is my sister's story. Can you imagine two more dissimilar films than these two? And yet both are mirrors of real life."