like many other couples actress dancer utthara unni and her beau nithesh nair had to postpone their wedding due to the pandemic last yearon monday they are finally getting married in a prominent hotel in kochi and utthara says she is glad they got some extra time before marriage ours is an arranged marriage and last year everything was happening very fast we didnt have a lot of time for preparations or to get to know each other well it was altogether a new phase but as we got some extra time we could understand each other a lot better in the past one year nithesh a businessman who hails from kozhikode is settled in mangalore and on and off utthara has been sharing some adorable pictures and videos with him too on her social media pagethe couple had a mehndi function swayamvara parvathi homam and a dance programme by uttharas students on the days before the wedding interestingly the sari that utthara would be wearing for her wedding would have the uttaraswayamvaram storys mural painted on it she attributes the idea to her mom actress urmila unni my mom is the most excited about the wedding and she is the one who chose most of my wedding costumes i would be wearing a silk kerala sari for thalikettu which would have the uttaraswayamvaram mural specially painted on it she has always been into sari designing and ideas and so she came up with this idea for my thaalikettu attire uttaraswayamvaram is a kathakali play by irayimman thampi based on the pandava princes exile the story culminates in the wedding of prince abhimanyu son of arjuna and princess uttharathe artiste reveals that soon after the wedding she will be moving to mangalore but then i will be shuttling between kochi and mangalore often now as my dance classes are virtual they can be handled from anywhere she says