Bollywood hottie Manisha Koirala tied the nuptial knot with Nepali businessman Samrat Dahal in a traditional Nepali ceremony today after an elaborate engagement and mehendi ceremony a day before.

The 40-year-old Koirala was married to the 33-year-old entrepreneur at the scenic Le Meridien resort in Kathmandu.

Even though her first hero in Bollywood, Vivek Mushran, flew to Kathmandu to attend the marriage, as did Manisha's friend and director Deepti Naval, there was not much of a Bollywood presence besides Sunita, who stood in proxy for her loving hubby Govinda.

There was also virtually no sign of the Nepali film industry, which has impassively accepted her return almost after two decades. Manisha returned to the Nepali film industry a few months back, playing wife to its superstar Rajesh Hamal.

Nepal's bigwigs comprising political heavyweights are expected at the wedding feast on Sunday. The wedding feast will be held at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza hotel.

Bollywood director Subhash Ghai, who first launched Manisha in the Hindi film industry with "Saudagar" in the year 1991, has been invited.

The newly-wed couple plan to throw a separate bash for Bollywood stars in Mumbai, where Manisha will continue to keep a foothold.

Her plans for Nepal had included opening a film city in Kathmandu and persuading Bollywood to shoot more of its films in Nepal.

Dahal, an MBA from Texas, hails from a non-filmi business family that is into education plus leather goods.

He himself is involved in launching a bio-gas factory in Pokhara city, where Manisha did a little bit of shooting recently for her new Nepali film "Dharma".

Manisha is the granddaughter of B. P. Koirala, Nepal's first elected PM, and though she herself has not yet shown any inclination to join political party barring a misjudged campaign for deposed king Gyanendra's government four years ago, her family boasts of three prime ministers, two deputy prime ministers and two MPs.

Her father Prakash Koirala was a minister in king Gyanendra's cabinet in the year 2005.

The couple will reportedly move out of Dahal's family home in the Bansbari area of Kathmandu for a pied-a-terre of their own. (With Inputs from Agencies)