Originally posted by: Isha789
Hello Friends,
We are here with a new DOTW topic. As you all know that recently we had the wedding of the most popular jodi in Indian films. They are non other than Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai (Bachchan). Everybody in IF is talking about their wedding. So don't we discuss about it here.
Here are some quickie questions that will help you for further discussion!
How do you feel about their wedding? happy for them
Are they made for each-other? yea...but i liked abhi better with rani
How do you feel about many celebrities not being invited to their wedding? Did they just invite the one's they didn't have a media controversy with, or do you think it was justified to not invite friends like SRK, Rani...etc?
There were many people who felt hurt because they couldn't come to the wedding.
Let me put my situation before you, and leave it to you and the world in general to judge and sentence us. We were dealing with a marriage and a guest list that was going out from seven important personalities and celebrities like my father Dr Harivanshrai Bachchan, a literary giant who has his own admirers in the literary world, my mother Teji Bachchan who has relatives, friends and associates going back to 90 years. There was Jaya, a personality in her own right with a large circle of relatives and friends, there were Abhishek and Aishwarya and there was Amar Singhji. And then finally there was yours truly… we were the hosts of the wedding. Please tell me, how do we even begin to invite all the people who are associated with these seven people?
What would the numbers have come to?
If we invited all the friends of all the hosts, the guest list would have run into 20,000 people. Where would we have accommodated so many people? In our home or in a hotel? No hotel in India could accommodate 20,000 people. In any case, the family decided that an event like our children's wedding couldn't be held in a hotel. It would be too impersonal a venue. So should we have had the wedding at the Bandra Kurla Complex like the Filmfare awards night? We needed two acres of land for such a guest list. Where do we provide air conditioning to so many people in this heat? How would I've accommodated and fed 20,000 people? I'd rather give that kind of money to charity.
So, how did you decide on the guest list?
The most crucial factor while deciding the guest list was my critically ill mother. In the last one year we haven't celebrated Diwali, Holi or my father's birth anniversary in Lucknow. We didn't want to have any celebration when my mother is lying in the hospital. At the same time, Abhishek is my only son. And it was his only wedding and the happiest moment in his life. How could we ignore that moment in his life? How could we deny him that moment of joy? This is what the circumstances were. We decided to have an intimate family gathering. Aishwarya's family and we decided to have a common wedding card and a common venue. And we chose friends who were absolutely impossible to ignore. Whatever we did we did it with the concurrence of both our families. We're happy with our decision. I'd like to believe that the industry too would share our happiness.
But some of your colleagues are hurt because they weren't invited.
Perhaps they are, perhaps they aren't. Either way, I'm fine with it. I respect their sentiments and I expect them to respect mine. If they're offended because they weren't invited then they weren't my friends in the first place. I couldn't go beyond the list we had. And in any case, everyone, from Shah Rukh to Hrithik to Salman, has sent their good wishes.
above is an extract from a n interview with Amitabh....i think he clarified himself enough and i think it was better to have a smaller private wedding
-Ishu
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