Archive for: April 2007

In an exclusive interview to Mumbai Mirror, Amitabh provided answers to all the questions that were circulating in the media. Here’s the complete interview :

How does it feel to have Aishwarya in the house?

It’s wonderful! I’m sure there’ll be even more happiness in the house because of her.

Will Aishwarya assume the Bachchan name on the passport, would you like a working bahu?

I’ve no problem with whatever name she uses. As far as her continuing to work is concerned, Jaya and I have no problem with it. It’s for Aishwarya and Abhishek to decide.

Were you happy with the wedding?

Yes, by the grace of God everything went off well. We’re happy that the union has taken place. There were some truly heartwarming moments during the wedding and I’d like to believe they were moments that will remain with us for the rest of our lives.

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.

Here are some pictures of Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan’s plane journey after their Tirupati visit. The newly married celebrity couple visited the temple on April 22, two days after their wedding. Abhishek and Aishwarya were joined by dad Amitabh Bachchan, mom Jaya Bachchan and close friend Anil Ambani on their visit tothe Tirupati temple seeking blessings of Lord Balaji. Aishwarya and Abhishek immediately flew to France from Tirupati to celebrate their HoneyMoon.

Pics : Abhishek Aishwarya Plane Journey

An inside view of Anil Ambani’s Private Jet which was decorated specially for the star couple

Strings, the famous Pakistani band are quite a rage in India as well. Who can forget their songs like Duur and Dhaani. But their first venture into Bollywood was with Sanjay Gupta’s Zinda where they sung the title track, “Yeh Hain Meri Kahani”. The song was an instant hit.

This time they provide their soulful voice to  Yeh Aakhri Raat from Shootout Out At Lokhandwala. The music of Shootout at Lokhandwala is composed by Anand Raj Anand. The song Yeh Akhri Raat reflects the theme of the film and would serve good as a background track. So go checkout the video of Yeh Akhri Raat by Strings.

Check out Pritam’s finest composition to date, In Dino from Life In A Metro. A wonderfully composed song with the right beats in the right places, In Dino touches your heart. Hats off to Soham who renders the song with the right amount of pain and emotion.

Life In A Metro as the name suggests deals with the life’s of eight individuals trying to deal with life and cope up with it’s problems  in the fast paced Mumbai city.

Life In A Metro is directed by Anurag Basu, whose two earlier movies Gangster and Woh Lamhe were also musical hits. The music of Life In A Metro far supercedes these two films. Definitely 2007’s best album and if you still haven’t bought it, then go and fetch your copy.

Pritam’s music has not struck gold this time for Anurag Singh’s Raqeeb. It is rather disappointing to hear such a dull and lacklustre musical work in a Pritam’s film album after his back-to-back super-hits numbers which have been topping music charts. If you check out the music albums of Life In A Metro and Raqeeb, it would be rather difficult to digest that both the albums are composed by the same music director, Pritam.

The title track, Dushmana comes in the musical mould of loud and fast paced musical arrangements where the singer narrates the theme of the film with the feel of obsession and passion in the soundtrack “Dushmana”. Kunal Ganjawala delivers a lackadaisical performance with a rather banal music by Pritam and stereo-typical lyrics by Pritam. The song fails to promise anything extravagant or innovative for its conventional feel and sounds purely situational in the context of its musical strength.

The only good thing about the song is perhaps it’s music video in which Tanushree Dutta sizzles and makes the temperatures rise! Check out this video from Raqeeb.

Bored of seeing all the pictures, of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek wedding, time and again. So movietonic, presents to you 100 + pictures from the Ash-Abhi wedding in the form of videos. The wedding pictures, mehendi pictures, sangeet pictures all encapsulated in 3 wonderful videos.

So here’s presenting to you a great compilation of the wedding pictures in the form of a video. Watch the video of the Abhishek Aishwarya wedding and also enjoy the great background music provided. Also there are a large number of exclusive pictures just for our readers, do bother to check.

After the three happy days of wedding celebrations which went as a private event, the Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, went for lunch at the brides home “La Mer”, later today bid a farewell to her house and reached Bachchan’s bungalow ‘Prateeksha’.

Aishwarya Rai was seated on a traditional `doli` (palanquin) as she was leaving her home of her parents “La Mer”. But she has to jumped in a car avoiding media personal on the way to her new home. She was seen wearing a cream-coloured lehenga while she did her emotional thank you bid to her parents for taking care of her till to this day.

As both Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai family are strong belivers of Hindu religion, the newly married couple  visited India’s famous Hindu shrines. The first was Tirupati Temple. Already before the wedding Amitabh Bachchan has visited Tirupati Temple for the blessing of the couple. Now the newly married Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai flew there to get the blessing of Lord Balaji.

They were accompanied to Tirupati by the rest of the Bachchan family and even industrialist Anil Ambani.

Meanwhile, the senior Bachchan also spoke to the media on Sunday, saying sorry because security guards roughed up journalists outside his house.

“I regret any inconvenience suffered by anyone. I don’t want to upset anyone on this auspicious occasion,” he said.

 In Pictures : Abhishek Aishwarya Tirupati Visit

Here are the wedding and mehendi pictures gathered and presented to you courtesy CNN-IBN. These are exclusive pictures of Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan at their wedding. A wonderful slideshow of many of the moments of the wedding are captured in …

Check out these never before seen pictures of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan from their Mehendi and wedding ceremony. Despite the ban on the media some of the pictures from the wedding ceremony leaked through. And here they are for you all to have a look at.

For the Mehendi ceremony, mehendi was brought from the groom’s house to the bride’s. Over 15 kg of henna was brought from Sojat, Rajasthan for the mehendi ceremony. Aishwarya wore a peach coloured zardosi lehnga designed by her friend Neeta Lulla.

As per tradition, the Mehndi ceremony was held at the bride’s house. It was a small, private ceremony with only close relatives and friends of the Rais invited. Abhishek, his sister Shweta Nanda, Sonali Bendre and her husband Goldie Behl attended the ceremony at the Rai’s La Mer residence.

Exclusive Mehendi Ceremony Pictures From The Aishwarya - Abhishek Wedding

Abhishek and Aishwarya created news page headlines for their wedding. Touted as the wedding of the millenium, Aishwarya and Abhishek had the paparaazi going bonkers.

Image of the Week: Ash- Abhi Wedding Picture

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