Nayyar, 30, met the former Miss India, 28, in New Delhi three years ago. “She unlocked something in me that I had never felt before,” the actor tells PEOPLE. 

The weeklong festivities, which Nayyar called “quite hectic,” included an exchange of vows, a garland ritual and henna tattoos. 

When Nayyar and Kapur first saw each other at the ceremony, they adorned each other with handmade garlands. 

At the actual wedding ceremony, Nayyar held a cup with a white lotus flower. “I dipped the flower in purified water and then threw it into the fire,” he says. 

And during the Mehndi portion of the wedding, thrown by Kapur’s family, “All of the women get henna and all the men drink Bloody Marys,” says Nayyar. “The men feed the women, because they have to wait for the henna to dry.” 

The newlyweds later enjoyed unwinding after “six days of partying.” 

— source People

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- SEPTEMBER 18TH: EMMY AWARDS 

Gallery Links:
- July 22nd: San Diego Comic Con 2011

>> Chuck Lorre: “The show is about extraordinary people, not nerds”
>> Jim Parsons: “I just wanted the chance to play Sheldon in the pilot”
>> Moderator said “Penny digs nerds” & Kaley Cuoco responds: “Kaley digs nerds too! We’re just riding this wave as long as you let us.”
>> Kunal asked about bollywood: “It’s about really good looking people dancing around, dancing in the rain & making out.” (Crowd laughs)
>> Simon Helberg answers question if there is improv: “No we memorize lines and lean on the writers a whole lot!”
>> Melissa does an impression and says in the show mom voice: “What is this #comiccon you’re at? Is it some kind of sex convention?!”
>> Mayim Bialik: “I fell in love with biology when I was on blossom. I love neuroscience, I love academia.”
>> Mayim: “I had never watched the show but auditioned. They needed a female Jim Parsons & I was like who’s Jim Parsons?”
>> Bill Prady: “there will be a resolution & we think whichever way you came down on something that’s the way it works out.”
>> Cast fav moments — Kaley: “where a lovely man had to grab my ass when dancing. He was an older man and he was so nervous!”
>> Cast fav moments — Kunal: “when we had to learn the bollywood dance and learn the song. I got yelled at by the teacher.”
>> Fav moments — Simon: “I enjoyed wrestling w/ kunal on & off camera. I like putting the unitard on – very convenient piece of clothing”
>>  Bill Prady: “Sheldon seems singularly devoted to science. It’s biological if he’s actually vulcan”
>> Fan said he was in Iraq and TBBT got him through it. Sheldon: “Thank you for serving our country, Bazinga!”
>> Jim: “We are so lucky on this show. The shows stay interesting. The writers keep giving us things that are so organic and honest.”
>> Mayim: “there’s a little bit of suspended adolescence with my character and its fun to play. And yes, I’m a very sexual actress.”
>> On if the cast do nerdy pranks — Kaley: “we play a lot of ping pong.” Jim says: “that was lame Kaley.”
>> Johnny: “my first screen kiss was with Mayim”
>> Fan Q: Was it embarrassing singing Soft Kitty? Kaley: “it was fun!” Jim: “It was awkward for me, I had to bare flesh!”
>> Kunal was asked a question & said he didn’t understand, so Simon repeated the question w/ an indian accent. The fans cracked up!
>> Last fan question: What do u have in common w/ ur characters? Kaley: “I live next door to people.” Melissa: “we’re both really short”
>> What do u have in common w/ ur characters? Simon: “I would say there’s very little. I do have an affinity for clothes.”

From @TVGuide:

>> Mayim Bialik jokes that kissing Kaley Cuoco was her favorite scene, but it was really when Amy got drunk
>> Chuck Lorre: “Mayim is a very sexual actress. She’s a very dirty, dirty girl. Full-frontal nudity this year.” He’s kidding…
>> Bill Prady says Sheldon’s kiss with Wolowitz’s mom doesn’t count. Amy is his real first kiss.
>> “Cheers brought people to alcoholism. TBBT brought people to science,” says Chuck Lorre

From @Jimmy722:

>> Jim Parsons didn’t try to make Sheldon sympathetic, but he’s always felt human and empathetic to him as an actor “he’s a lovely fella”
>> Johnny was doing a play in new york when Chuck Lorre called him for the job, he knew they had magic at the first table read.
>> Applause for Jim and Johnny’s Emmy nominations. “The competition is fierce?” Johnny: “Always. Since Day one.”
>> Mayim’s favorite part of the season was having a drunk kiss with Sheldon.
>> Did we just get boo’d at Comic-Con?” – creators of TBBT after Kaley asks what T.I.M.E. stands for. Audiences was not happy.
>> Mayim (the neuroscientist) helps Jim understand some of what Sheldon says.
>> Jim says the most takes he’s ever had to do of anything ever was “rock paper scissors Spock”
>> No more Sara Gilbert on TBBT : Bill Prady says she’s unavailable to them because of her commitment to THE TALK.
>> Man comes dressed as Howard : “He’s dressed like me and he’s asking Amy questions!” Simon jokes.
>> Mayim is noting she is breaking all of her “What Not To Wear” tips she got from the episode with her character’s wardrobe.
>> “You’re the only person who can help with dialogue!” Jim says to Mayim, after she says he says she’s the nerdiest person on the cast.

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Links:
- Bill Prady (Executive Producer)
- Kunal Nayyar (Rajesh Koothrappali)
- Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz)
- Kaley Cuoco (Penny)
- Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler)

The London-born and New Delhi-raised actor spent some time talking to Page 2 about his thoughts on the ICC Cricket World Cup, what every American should know about the sport, and which fellow “Big Bang” cast member would make the best cricketer.

You have English and Indian roots? Who’s your team?

“I’m an Indian fan. I only lived in London for three or four years. I predominantly started watching cricket growing up in India.”

Talk about your experiences playing cricket.

“I grew up like any other kid in Delhi playing cricket since I was 5 or 6 years old. I went to cricket camp in the summer. I played a lot of cricket for fun and at school. I was never really great, but I was a huge cricket fanatic. For me, getting on the field was a dream. Anytime we had a moment, we’d go into our driveway with a tennis ball and cricket bat and play.”

What’s your favorite World Cup memory?

“It’s my favorite and it’s my worst moment because we lost. It’s when we played Australia in the final in 2003. I remember because I was in Portland, Ore., studying in college at the time, and my brother had found out this one Indian restaurant was going to be showing the World Cup final. It was two hours away and I skipped school that day. It was 4:30 in the morning and they were serving samosas and chai. It was $45 to get into this restaurant. It was so expensive, but we paid. We stood up when the national anthem played. I was almost crying. This was our year, but they absolutely destroyed us.”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY AND KUNAL!

Q: What about that show appealed to you?
A: It was a Chuck Lorre pilot, and it was a multi-camera show, which is very close to theater – the world that I knew – and it was really funny. I didn’t look at it and say, oh this is a perfect geek comedy, I just read it and said, Oh my God, this is brilliant writing, this is so funny.

Q: How would you describe your character, Raj?
A: Not only does he have trouble mingling with the outside world, he also has trouble mingling because he’s a foreigner… it’s a double-edged sword he’s fighting. He feels very comfortable with these guys because they’re everything to him, you know what I mean? He’s so dependent, especially on Howard, but these guys are his family and his life, because he feels completely at ease with them.

And of course, you know, he suffers from selective mutism, which comes from his pathological shyness, and he can only talk to women when he drinks.

Inside Raj lives a beast, like a rapper or like a player or like a mogul, because every time he drinks he becomes this smooth, suave, picking-up-girls kind of guy. So I think there’s a beast that lives inside him.

Q: To what extent do you think you’re like Raj?
A: I think if Raj could let the beast out, that would be Kunal. I think Kunal is the beast that’s living inside Raj. Not that I am a mogul or a player or anything, but in essence I have the freedoms that he doesn’t.Kunal is very much like Raj because I also sometimes I have to fight that double-edged sword, fitting in socially as well as internationally. And I think Raj is kind of mischievous and I’m pretty mischievous. Things excite Raj very easily, he gets excited very easily when it comes to video games or women or anything, and I’m sort of like that too.

I will post a video as soon as one becomes available online!

Why does Raj always wear so many layers? -Haverly
Kunal Nayyar: I think the discussion that happened with the costume designer is that because he’s in a new country and because he’s a genius at such a young age, the layers act as protection. It’s like a shield for him. I also bet Raj thinks it looks good.

Will he ever get up the courage to talk to a woman? – PopWrap
Kunal: I doubt it. I think they’ll try lots of experimental drugs, so like in season eight he’ll be a junkie! [laughs] But no, I don’t think we’ll ever see him get over it, which I always wondered about in the beginning. “How will we continue to do this,” but the writers are amazing.

Do you think Raj and Howard are the 2010 Bert and Ernie? – Vlad
Kunal: There’s definitely a bromance there. That’s what is so lovely about this season you’re seeing that they can’t live without each other. In the next few episodes you’ll really see how dependent Leonard is on Sheldon and Penny. But I think Raj and Howard are endearing. I also love that Raj is becoming more needy and effeminate, like the wife in their relationship.

Co-creator Chuck Lorre said that Sheldon doesn’t qualify as gay or straight — what about Raj, does he want a girlfriend? – Linda
Kunal: I think with Sheldon, that’s obviously the case — he lives in a very specific world. As they all do, but unlike Sheldon, the guys are horny as hell! Like any single man. All Raj wants to do is pick up girls. Howard too. And you see that Leonard just wants to be with Penny. Despite growing up in labs, these guys are still driven by their lions — but it’s just difficult to carry off.

What kind of girl would Raj be able to date? – Jackie
Kunal: I thought about dating a deaf women — but that’s a hard joke to pull off sensitively. I don’t know if he’ll actually ever find love. Plus, I wonder, what’s funnier than seeing these guys fail? That’s the essence of comedy. I think they’ll succeed at being friends, but not with women.

The cast of ‘Friday Night Lights” (Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden, Scott Porter, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons and Louanne Stephens) presenting the Abe Burrows Entertainment Award to the show’s executive producer, Jason Katims. Actor J. K. Simmons leading cast members from CBS’s “Big Bang Theory” (Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Kunal Nayyar), in a rousing rendition of the show’s finale, “You’ve Gotta Have Heart.”

UPDATE: More photos of Kaley and Jim added. (Some Jim photos thanks to jimparsons.net)