This Sunday's Pick Me Up: Better than Bollywood: Two Documentarians Overcome Obstacles, Find Love on Set

A friend who dated a white Bollywood producer once told me that the one romantic issue that Bollywood films never seem to touch on is relationships between Indians and the white people who love them. These stories, thankfully, aren't in short supply in the NYTimes wedding announcements. But This is the first vows column featuring such a romance that I can recall. Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly are no strangers to the Times. I remember reading articles and reviews about their documentary film, "The Way We Get By," which follows the groom's mother and several other elderly Maine folk who welcome home from and send local troops off to service. And the Times' familiarity with its subjects shows. It deals with the couple's issues (career uncertainty, her family's reluctant and eventual approval, and the poverty inherent in choosing to do what they love) with grace. The "It's a Wonderful Life" moment where the town pulls together a wedding for them is priceless, heartfelt, and, while the cynic in me says that two starving artists featured in the New York Times more than once could probably afford their own wedding, the romantic in me loves the real-life, poetic, happy-ending. While I'm sure they, like all couples, will face inevitable speed bumps, it's nice to think that there is a bit of movie magic in the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.