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DELHI - Liz Hurley's Indian wedding celebrations appear to be going from bad to worse, if reports in the Indian press are true.
First the ceremony where Hurley wed Arun Nayer in Jodhpur was marred when a fight broke out between her security guards and Indian journalists and locals.
And now there are reports of a rift between Ms Hurley and her mother-in-law.
A party set to be held for the couple on Saturday night in Bombay was cancelled after Ms Hurley and her mother-in-law Joanne Nayar fell out during the celebrations in Jodhpur, according to a report in the Times of India's Bombay supplement.
The report claimed there is a "war" on between the two women, and that Ms Hurley was upset that Ms Nayar had used the wedding to promote a range of jewellery.
Ms Nayar and her husband, Vinod, were to host a party for the newlywed couple in Bombay on Saturday, but it was cancelled at the last minute.
Ms Nayar denied it had anything to do with any rift between her and Ms Hurley.
"We cancelled the party as the paparazzi was getting aggressive in Jodhpur and we didn't want another scuffle," she told the Bombay Times.
"It's all calm and cool between Liz and me. How can you fight with family?"
Ms Hurley's marathon wedding celebrations in India have been fraught with trouble.
Police demolished a wooden deck specially built to host her hours before a party started in Bombay, after complaints from local residents it was encroaching on a public beach.
There were complaints too that private security guards were blocking locals' access to the beach.
The trouble over the security guards only got worse when the party moved on to the Rajasthani city of Jodhpur for a Hindu marriage ceremony, with accusations they had roughed up several Indian journalists and locals trying to get a glimpse of a banquet being held in the city's Mehrangarh Fort.
The irony over the latest allegations is that Ms Hurley's Indian wedding has been a highly commercial affair.
The couple sold the exclusive rights to Hello! Magazine.
But now, if the reports are true, Ms Hurley is unhappy that her mother-in-law tried to exploit the wedding commercially.
Ms Nayar is believed to have signed a deal to become "ambassador" for a Bombay jeweller earlier this year, and now reports claim she used the wedding to promote the shop.
Ms Hurley's problem throughout her stay in India is that she has been behaving like a celebrity in a country where she isn't one.
Indians might accept being forced off their beach or jostled by security guards for a Bollywood star or a cricketer - but they are not going to be pushed around by a foreigner almost nobody has heard of here.
Mr Nayar was brought up in Bombay but left the country many years ago, and is little known in India.
The couple are now believed to have left India on honeymoon to an unspecified destination in Africa.
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