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Elizabeth Hurley is determined to put on a happy face amid the drama surrounding her wedding in India to businessman Arun Nayar.

The British actress-model and Arun Nayar, 42, were married several times last month, once in a lavish and traditional Hindu ceremony in Jodhpur.

The event drew the ire of a Hindu religious activist, who filed a complaint saying it had mocked Hindu customs. Regardless, these two get married more than Anna Nicole Smith. That’s all we know.

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Meanwhile, tabloids in England and India have carried reports that Nayar’s father, Vinod Nayar, severed all ties with his son after he was thrown out of the wedding – at the urging of Elizabeth Hurley.

When asked how this has affected the couple, the ex of Hugh Grant told AP Television News that it has made her “incredibly grateful for the nice people” in her life.

“We’re so lucky for the good things that we kind of turn a blind eye to the bad things,” said Hurley, who called her family “fantastic.”

The 41-year-old Mrs. Arun Nayar attended an event for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in New York on Tuesday night, and said she hasn’t “settled down into real life yet.”

“The whole wedding took forever. The wedding itself took eight days; planning it took considerably longer; recovering from it; I’m still not sure I have,” she said.

Hurley and Nayar first wed in a private civil ceremony in a castle outside London. The complaint about their Hindu wedding says Hurley wore revealing clothes and didn’t remove her footwear while walking around the sacred fire at the ceremony.

The petition was filed under a section of the Indian Penal Code that makes it an offense to upset any religious feelings with “deliberate and malicious intention.”

India’s legal system is notoriously slow, and it could take months and even years before complaints come up for hearing.

Regardless, Elizabeth Hurley can take solace in the fact that she still has the best body in Britain, and Arun Nayar can find comfort in the fact that he hits that.